This theory and how I differ from the traditional approach is summarized in §9.1.
Name strategy suggests at least three problems with radical interpretation, they
are:
1. the reduced accuracy problem, which is: Why have two colour names in-
stead of one as this can reduce accuracy?
2. the segmentation problem, which is: How does a theory of meaning ac-
count for the real numbers, or why is the Continuum Hypothesis of
mathematics justified?
3. the extralinguistic assignment problem, which is: traditional radical in-
terpretation requires extralinguistic information in order to assign truth
values to bivalent statements; the extralinguistic assignment problem asks:
what is the correct concomitant label (or flag) associated with statements
and how is it induced?
In §6 it is pointed out that psycholinguistic speech production models require
a-priori structure from which speech is produced. The example of an interact-
ing speech production model is investigated, here the starting point is a word
in quotation marks which represents the meaning of a word. It has long been
argued by philosophers that a word in isolation has ambiguous meaning, so that
there is the problem of why it is justifiable to start with the meaning of a word
in isolation. It is here argued that the existence of name strategy indicates the
independence of thought and talk, and thus vindicates the assumption of psy-
cholinguistic speech models, namely that there is a starting point in production
which is independent of words. §9.2 is the conclusion.
1.4 Stereotypes Compared to Other Representations
The properties of colour name strategy are that it is a stereotype which in
addition:
1. has eleven switches, see §2.1,
2. is culturally determined, see §2.1,
3. and is encapsulated.
Encapsulation means that once the stereotype has been created it cannot be
adjusted and that its modes of interaction are few and in principle determined:
encapsulation results in a higher speed of processing. Ob ject name strategy §3
and memory chuncking §4 are stereotypes which:
1. are not switched,
2. are determined by the environment,
3. are encapsulated.