Jezik i stvarnost
Language and Reality

Summary/Abstract: The author discusses the complex matters of the relation between language, reality and human mind. The central question is: Does language reflect reality or does it form the image of the world in our mind? In the reply to this question, the author considered man's cognitive process and analysed sensual and psychical processes in which the linguistic imaqe of the world is formed. As a Marxist, the author remains on the position that cognition and truth are permanent motion and development. Being against the vulgarization of the theory of reflection Schaff avoided all extremities in clearing the matters and questions from this work. He concluded that language does not shape the image of reality (in the narrow sense of the word) nor is it a reflection of this reality.

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