Learning Concepts: A Learning-Theoretic Solution to the Complex-First Paradox.
Children acquire complex concepts like dog earlier than simple concepts like brown , even though our best neuroscientific theories suggest that learning the former is harder than learning the latter and, thus, should take more time (Markus Werning). This is the complex-first paradox. We present a no...
| Published in: | Philosophy of Science Vol. 87; no. 1; pp. 135 - 152 |
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Cambridge University Press
Jan2020
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