Copy theory

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wayne de Fremery ◽  
Michael K. Buckland
Keyword(s):  
Copy Theory

Hume, Empiricism and the Generality of Thought

Dialogue ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
KENNETH R. WESTPHAL
Keyword(s):  
Fine Grained ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Copy Theory ◽  
Concept Empiricism

Hume sought to analyse our propositionally-structured thought in terms of our ultimate awareness of nothing but objects, sensory impressions or their imagistic copies, “ideas.” The ideas of space and time are often regarded as exceptions to his Copy Theory of impressions and ideas. On grounds strictly internal to Hume’s Treatise, I argue that they are instead typical of Hume’s account of the generality of thought. This ultimately reveals the limits of the Copy Theory and of Concept Empiricism. The key is to recognise how very capacious is our (Humean) imaginative capacity to associate particular perceptions by various fine-grained determinable resemblances.

Sideward Movement

2001 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 303-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jairo Nunes
Keyword(s):  
Alternative Model ◽  
General Framework ◽  
Minimalist Program ◽  
Crucial Aspect ◽  
Computational System ◽  
Copy Theory Of Movement ◽  
Copy Theory ◽  
Primitive Operation ◽  
Chain Links

Assuming the general framework of the Minimalist Program of Chomsky 1995, this article argues that Move is not a primitive operation of the computational system, but rather the output of the interaction among the independent operations Copy, Merge, Form Chain, and Chain Reduction (deletion of chain links for purposes of linearization). The crucial aspect of this alternative model is that it permits constrained instances of sideward movement, whereby a given constituent “moves” from a syntactic object K to an independent syntactic object L. This version of the copy theory of movement (a) provides an explanation for why (some) traces must be deleted in the phonological component, (b) provides a cyclic analysis for standard instances of noncyclic movement, and (c) accounts for the main properties of parasitic gap and across-the-board extraction constructions.

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