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The notion of distal similarity is ill defined

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 1998

Ulrike Hahn
Affiliation:
University of Warwick, Coventry CV7 4AL, United Kingdomu.hahn,[email protected]
Nick Chater
Affiliation:
University of Warwick, Coventry CV7 4AL, United Kingdomu.hahn,[email protected]

Abstract

We argue that the notion of distal similarity on which Edelman's reconstruction of the process of perception and the nature of representation rests is ill defined. As a consequence, the mapping between world and description that is supposedly at stake is, in fact, a mapping between two different descriptions or “representations.”

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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