| Abstract: | Both representational and self organizing approaches to language avoid in different ways the concept of symbol We argue that representationalism denies the particular aspects of a subjects embodiment while the self organizing paradigm refuses to address the utility of the concept of symbol and its evolutionary relationship with an environment We call for an inclusive approach that considers the syntactic semantic and pragmatic aspects of language We further offer a mathematical structure defined in terms of fuzzy set and evidence theories as a model of linguistic categories under this inclusive framework |
