His ideas, based on the view of linguistic development first conceived by the philosopher J.G. Fichte, stressed the influence of the mother tongue in shaping the mind.
It is known that phonemes, the entities at the lower end of the linguistic hierarchy underlying communication, can be conceived of as dynamic meaningful categories [4].
More recently, Michael Devitt (2006) has defended the folk ontology itself, arguing that Chomskians should but don't distinguish between the object of linguistic knowledge, which is to say English conceived as a set of physical types, and our grasp of those objects, which is only ever partial.
After half a century of labour immigration, even the European peoples, given their growing ethnic, linguistic, and religious pluralism, can no longer be conceived as culturally homogenous entities.
The mind that conceived its symmetry, wove its intricate linguistic patterns, and handled the subtle differentiation of hero and narrator was moved by a formal as well as a personal passion.
So conceived, a theory can be adequately represented by more than one linguistic formulation because it is not a system of sentences or propositions.
From the viewpoint of pragmatics, sentences can be conceived as utterance-types, resulted from abstracting all elements except the linguistic expressions used.
It was conceived as a generic platform for the specification of lexical structures at any level of linguistic description covering monolingual and multilingual lexicons.
The later work of Kuhn and Wittgenstein in particular were influential in the development of the Strong Program doctrine of "meaning finitism", according to which the meanings of terms are conceived as social institutions: the various ways in which they are used successfully in communication within a linguistic community.
Reduction may also apply to concepts, where concepts are conceived of loosely as whatever is expressed by a meaningful term, or as the cognitively significance of a linguistic representation, or in Fregean terms as the mode of presentation under which an object is given by a representation.
