It is well established that the processing of hand-, mouth-, and foot-related action terms can activate areas of the motor cortex that are involved in the planning and execution of the described actions. In the present study, the sensitivity of these motor structures to language processes was exploited to test linguistic theories on information layering. Human languages possess a variety of linguistic devices, so-called presupposition triggers, that allow us to convey background information without asserting it.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAt the beginning of the XVIII th century, Wilhelm Gottfried Leibniz and Friedrich Hoffmann criticize Georg Ernst Stahl's medical theory. They differenciate between unsound and true reasonings. Namely, they validate Stahl's definition of breath but extracting it from its animist basis and placing it in an epistemology obeying to the principle of sufficient reason and to the mechanical model.
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