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Questioning explicit properties of implicit individuals in knowledge representation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1999

Carmen E. Westerberg
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455 [email protected]@gold.tc.umn.edu
Chad J. Marsolek
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455 [email protected]@gold.tc.umn.edu

Abstract

Dienes & Perner argue that the explicit representation of an individual to which a property is attributed requires explicit representation of the attributed property. The reasons for this conclusion are similar to the reasons why another of their conclusions may be considered suspect: A property may be explicit without an explicit representation of an individual or the predication of the property to an individual. We question the latter conclusion and draw connections to neurophysiological and cognitive evidence.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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