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Page 57
... remarked in Chapter 1 that human sub- jects typically have more trouble mastering disjunctive concepts than they do with conjunctive or negative ones . But we remarked , too , that the no- tion of the form of a concept needs to be ...
... remarked in Chapter 1 that human sub- jects typically have more trouble mastering disjunctive concepts than they do with conjunctive or negative ones . But we remarked , too , that the no- tion of the form of a concept needs to be ...
Page 153
... remarked that the kind of nouns the child uses first tend to be of middle - class ab- stractness ; ' dog ' , for example , enters the vocabulary before ' animal ' or ' poodle ' do . And since ' dog ' is presumably defined in terms of ...
... remarked that the kind of nouns the child uses first tend to be of middle - class ab- stractness ; ' dog ' , for example , enters the vocabulary before ' animal ' or ' poodle ' do . And since ' dog ' is presumably defined in terms of ...
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... remarked there that it is a main tenet of modern linguistics that every sentence in a natural language has an analysis at each of a fixed number of descriptive levels . Each such level has itself got the properties of a formal language ...
... remarked there that it is a main tenet of modern linguistics that every sentence in a natural language has an analysis at each of a fixed number of descriptive levels . Each such level has itself got the properties of a formal language ...
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analysis apply argument assigned assume assumption bachelor behavior believe breakfast of champions bridge laws causal Churchill coextensive cognitive processes cognitive psychology communication computational concept learning correspondence course defined determined discussion disjunction empirical example express fact Fodor formulae give the speech grammar hearer hypothesis identical images inference input insofar INTERNAL CODE internal representations involves John kind predicates language of thought LINGUISTIC EVIDENCE logic machine mechanisms mediate mental messages natural language notion organism perception philosophers picture plausible present point PRIVATE LANGUAGE private language argument propositional attitudes psycholinguistic PSYCHOLOGICAL EVIDENCE psychological theories PUBLIC LANGUAGES reductionism reference relation remarked represent representational system satisfy semantic properties sense sensory sentence sort speaker special sciences stimulus structural description suppose syntactic things tion token physicalism true iff truth conditions truth definition truth rule typically unity of science unmarried utterance variables verbal visual Wheaties