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Summary of oral presentation to the Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science, November 30, 1961. The oral presentation differed from this summary in that some of the evidence referred to here was given in greater detail. Reference and discussion of my own earlier work is left in rather skeletal form here since the results have been published elsewhere.

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Lenneberg, E.H. The relationship of language to the formation of concepts. Synthese 14, 103–109 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00881988

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