The danger of words: A Wittgensteinian lesson for developmentalists

New Ideas in Psychology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 89-115

  Lourenço, Orlando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Developmental psychology; Fallacies; Language games; Wittgenstein

Indexed keywords

EID: 0013467158     PISSN: 0732118X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0732-118X(01)00002-2     Document Type: Article

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