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Getting real about invariants

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2001

Alan Costall
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth P01 2DY, United Kingdom Alan.costall@port.ac.uk www.port.ac.uk/department/psychology/staff/alan.html
Giulia Parovel
Affiliation:
Department of General Psychology, University of Padua, Padua 35100, Italy parovel@psy.unipd.it sinico@psy.unipd.it
Michele Sinico
Affiliation:
Department of General Psychology, University of Padua, Padua 35100, Italy parovel@psy.unipd.it sinico@psy.unipd.it
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Abstract

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Stoffregen & Bardy argue that unimodal invariants do not exist,and that only “amodal” invariants are possible. But they confuse twoseparate issues. Amodal invariants, we argue, do indeed exist tospecify features of the environment, but not even an amodalinvariant, in isolation, could specify their “presence” or“reality.”

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© 2001 Cambridge University Press