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Abstract or not abstract? Well, it depends …

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 August 2009

Alison Pease ,
Alan Smaill  and
Markus Guhe
Alison Pease
Affiliation:
School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, Scotland, United Kingdom. [email protected]@[email protected]
Alan Smaill
Affiliation:
School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, Scotland, United Kingdom. [email protected]@[email protected]
Markus Guhe
Affiliation:
School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, Scotland, United Kingdom. [email protected]@[email protected]
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Abstract

The target article by Cohen Kadosh & Walsh (CK&W) raises questions as to the precise nature of the notion of abstractness that is intended. We note that there are various uses of the term, and also more generally in mathematics, and suggest that abstractness is not an all-or-nothing property as the authors suggest. An alternative possibility raised by the analysis of numerical representation into automatic and intentional codes is suggested.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 32 , Issue 3-4 , August 2009 , pp. 345 - 346
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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