Analog representations and their users.

Characterizing different kinds of representation is of fundamental importance to cognitive science, and one traditional way of doing so is in terms of the analog-digital distinction. Indeed the distinction is often appealed to in ways both narrow and broad. In this paper I argue that the analog-digi...

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Publicado en:Synthese Vol. 193; no. 3; pp. 851 - 872
Autor principal: Katz, Matthew
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Nature Mar2016
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