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Object recognition is not predication

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2004

Jean-Louis Dessalles
Affiliation:
ParisTech-ENST, F-75013 Paris, France dessalles@enst.fr http://www.enst.fr/~jld
Laleh Ghadakpour
Affiliation:
Ecole Polytechnique, 75005 Paris, France laleh@infres.enst.fr http://www.enst.fr/~ghadakpo

Abstract

Predicates involved in language and reasoning are claimed to radically differ from categories applied to objects. Human predicates are the cognitive result of a contrast between perceived objects. Object recognition alone cannot generate such operations as modification and explicit negation. The mechanism studied by Hurford constitutes at best an evolutionary prerequisite of human predication ability.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© 2003 Cambridge University Press

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