Eliminating the "concept" concept.
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Machery suggests that the concept of "concept" is too heterogeneous to serve as a "natural kind" for scientific explanation, so cognitive science should do without concepts. I second the suggestion and propose substituting, in place of concepts, inborn and acquired sensorimotor category-detectors and category-names combined into propositions that define and describe further categories.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The Behavioral and brain sciences
دوره 33 2-3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2010