How Long to Read A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning

How Long Does it Take to Read A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 55 minutes to read A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning by Ray Jackendoff

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning presents a profound and arresting integration of the faculties of the mind - of how we think, speak, and see the world. Ray Jackendoff starts out by looking at languages and what the meanings of words and sentences actually do. He shows that meanings are more adaptive and complicated than they're commonly given credit for, and he is led to some basic questions: How do we perceive and act in the world? How do we talk about it? And how can the collection of neurons in the brain give rise to conscious experience? As it turns out, the organization of language, thought, and perception does not look much like the way we experience things, and only a small part of what the brain does is conscious. Jackendoff concludes that thought and meaning must be almost completely unconscious. What we experience as rational conscious thought - which we prize as setting us apart from the animals - in fact rides on a foundation of unconscious intuition. Rationality amounts to intuition enhanced by language. Written with an informality that belies both the originality of its insights and the radical nature of its conclusions, A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning is the author's most important book since the groundbreaking Foundations of Language in 2002.

How long is A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning?

A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning by Ray Jackendoff is 287 pages long, and a total of 73,759 words.

This makes it 97% the length of the average book. It also has 90% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 43 minutes to read A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning aloud.

What Reading Level is A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning?

A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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