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Wittgenstein and Connectionism: a Significant Complementarity?*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2010

Stephen Mills
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Between the later views of Wittgenstein and those of connectionism1 on the subject of the mastery of language there is an impressively large number of similarities. The task of establishing this claim is carried out in the second section of this paper (with arguments in the fourth section lending further support).

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Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements , Volume 34 , March 1993 , pp. 137 - 157
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 1993

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