Rethinking associations in psychology.

I challenge the dominant understanding of what it means to say two thoughts are associated. The two views that dominate the current literature treat association as a kind of mechanism that drives sequences of thought (often implicitly treating them so). The first, which I call reductive associationi...

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Published in:	Synthese Vol. 193; no. 12; pp. 3763 - 3787
Main Author:	Dacey, Mike
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer Nature Dec2016
Subjects:	Comparative psychology Models & modelmaking Mechanism (Philosophy) Connectionism Reductionism
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost