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Building block dilemmas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 1998

Christopher Gauker
Christopher Gauker
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0374 gaukercp@email.uc.edu ucaswww.mcm.edu/philosophy/gauker/
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Abstract

Feature-based theories of concept formation face two dilemmas. First, for many natural concepts, it is hard to see how the concepts of the features could be developmentally more basic. Second, concept formation must be guided by “abstraction heuristics,” but these can be neither universal principles of rational thought nor natural conventions.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , February 1998 , pp. 26 - 27
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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