Women, Fire and Dangerous Things. Book 1: Mind Outside the Machine

The book of the famous American linguist is one of the fundamental work that began the beginning of the cognitive direction in linguistics and cognitimism as a whole. New, cognitive-oriented theory of knowledge and language (called by the author experimencyline) is built in the book on the material of critical consideration and summarizing the results of an extremely wide range of research in the field of various sciences, primarily philosophy, logic, psychology, anthropology, biology, mathematics, physics, computer Science, research in the field of artificial intelligence, physiology of perception and, of course, linguistics. The authorized approach based on such concepts as cognitive, including metaphorical and metonimical, models, figurative schemes, radial categories, prototypes, etc.
The book is intended for all those interested in the philosophical and linguistic problems of the theory of knowledge, the ratio of language, thinking and reality, the problems of grammatical and