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The Relationship between Thought and Reality in Cognitive Semantics

This essay examines the relationship between thought and reality as it is treated in cognitive semantics and two questions that come to mind immediately are: how can “thought” possibly be the subject of an essay on linguistics? Why does it not examine the relationship between language and reality? In cognitive semantics, however, the distinction between thought and language and the relationship between both is extremely important. This is the case precisely because the way we characterize this relationship has an enormous effect on our understanding of language and of the way it is organized. The distinction between thought and language and the focus on cognition has lead cognitive semantics, among many other things, to a new understanding of the structure of categories in language and of the role of metaphor. I want to follow this development by starting with the question: What is thought?