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Room for concept development?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 1998

Josef Perner
Josef Perner
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Salzburg, Hellbrunnerstrasse 34, A-5020 Salzburg, [email protected]
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Abstract

Millikan's externalist account of concept acquisition cannot completely avoid the distinction between central (defining) and peripheral (characteristic) features, because some knowledge is required to achieve reference and to decide what kind of information to record about the identified substances. However, the emphasis on external reference may provide the requisite principled way to make this distinction.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , February 1998 , pp. 82 - 83
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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