Concept Innateness, Concept Continuity, and Bootstrapping.
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چکیده
The commentators raised issues relevant to all three important theses of The Origin of Concepts (TOOC). Some questioned the very existence of innate representational primitives, and others questioned my claims about their richness and whether they should be thought of as concepts. Some questioned the existence of conceptual discontinuity in the course of knowledge acquisition and others argued that discontinuity is much more common than portrayed in TOOC. Some raised issues with my characterization of Quinian bootstrapping, and others questioned the dual factor theory of concepts motivated by my picture of conceptual development.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The Behavioral and brain sciences
دوره 34 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2011