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CHAPTER 3. OTHER COGNITIVE APPROACHES 116<br />

vaguely de ned entity in it that triggers the conclusion|in any case, the reason for the<br />

belief is not given in the sentence.<br />

B<br />

him<br />

mind<br />

evidence<br />

E<br />

him’<br />

mind’<br />

Figure 3.5: recognize: She saw that nothing would change his mind.<br />

discourse, which doesnotinvolve physical perception, would be represented like<br />

recognize, but without setting up the perceptual space at all.<br />

The sense which Ihave labeled news is an extension of recognize, which carries<br />

an additional presupposition that the seer has learned of the situation from a visual news<br />

medium; example sentences are Isee that Congress wants to pass a tax cut, Did you see<br />

where Microsoft is suing IBM? ,<strong>and</strong>He saw that the price of his stock had fallen again.<br />

The general case can be represented schematically as in Fig. 3.6.<br />

B<br />

medium<br />

SOA<br />

image<br />

P<br />

Figure 3.6: news<br />

C<br />

content<br />

There is no presumption as to the exact type of the news medium, but it is<br />

presumed to be visual, because the word see is used in preference to hear. This sense is<br />

triggered when the hearer supposes that the speaker is not likely to have direct knowledge<br />

of the state of a airs. It is di cult to nd words that will cover both the case of reading<br />

a newspaper <strong>and</strong> the case of seeing a television news program, but we could describe the<br />

process like this: perception of the image leads to setting up some notion of the content<br />

SOA’<br />

C

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