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Toward extending the relational priming model: Six questions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2008

Eric Dietrich
Affiliation:
Philosophy Department, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY 13902-6000. [email protected]://bingweb.binghamton.edu/~dietrich

Abstract

Six questions are posed that are really specific versions of this question: How can Leech et al.'s system be extended to handle adult-level analogies that frequently combine concepts from semantically distant domains sharing few relational labels and that involve the production of abstractions? It is Leech et al. who stress development; finding such an extension would seem to have to be high on their priority list.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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