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Finding order in our world: The primacy of the concrete in neural representations and the role of invariance in substance reidentification

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 1998

Bruce J. MacLennan
Bruce J. MacLennan
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996-1301 [email protected]/~mclennan
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Abstract

I discuss neuroscientific and phenomenological arguments in support of Millikan's thesis. I then consider invariance as a unifying theme in perceptual and conceptual tracking, and how invariants may be extracted from the environment. Finally, some wider implications of Millikan's nondescriptionist approach to language are presented, with specific application to color terms.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , February 1998 , pp. 78 - 79
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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