Semantics and the computational paradigm in cognitive psychology
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Semantics and the Computational Paradigm in Cognitive Psychology
There is a prevalent notion among cognitive scientists and philosophers of mind that computers are merely formal symbol manipulators; performing the actions they do solely on the basis of the syntactic properties of the symbols they manipulate. This view of computers has allowed some philosophers to divorce semantics· from computational explanations. Semantic content, then, becomes something on...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Synthese
سال: 1989
ISSN: 0039-7857,1573-0964
DOI: 10.1007/bf00873258