The Channels of Thought

Benny Shanon*

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Abstract

A typology of verbal-like sequences of thought that spontaneously pass through people’s minds is proposed. The typology is based on the observation that the expressions of which such sequences are composed differ in epistemic status. These statuses include: thought, memory, enactment, meta-observation, and control. The different episternic statuses are surveyed, functions associated with them are defined, and the possible patterns of status change are defined.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)221-242
Number of pages22
JournalDiscourse Processes
Volume11
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Apr 1988

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