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Conceptual deficits without features:A view from atomism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 November 2001

Roberto G. de Almeida
Roberto G. de Almeida
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec H4B 1R6, Canada almeida@alcor.concordia.ca www.psychology.concordia.ca
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Abstract

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Humphreys and Forde fail to account for the ontology of the “features” that they claim are constitutive of concepts. This failure is common to decompositional theories of conceptual representation. Category-specific deficits can be better explained by a theory that takes inferential relations among atomic concepts to be the key characteristic of conceptual representation and processing.

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Brief Report
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 24 , Issue 3 , June 2001 , pp. 482 - 483
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© 2001 Cambridge University Press