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Rebooting the bootstrap argument: Two puzzles for bootstrap theories of concept development
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 May 2011
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The Origin of Concepts sets out an impressive defense of the view that children construct entirely new systems of concepts. We offer here two questions about this theory. First, why doesn't the bootstrapping process provide a pattern for translating between the old and new systems, contradicting their claimed incommensurability? Second, can the bootstrapping process properly distinguish meaning change from belief change?
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