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The Generality Constraint and the Structure of Thought.

According to the Generality Constraint, mental states with conceptual content must be capable of recombining in certain systematic ways. Drawing on empirical evidence from cognitive science, I argue that so-called analogue magnitude states violate this recombinability condition and thus have nonconc...

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Published in:Mind (0026-4423) Vol. 121; no. 483; pp. 563 - 601
Main Author: BECK, JACOB
Format: Article
Published: Oxford University Press / USA Jul2012
Subjects:
Mental health
Cognitive science
Philosophy of mind
Cognitive psychology
Supervenience (Philosophy)
Thought & thinking
Cognition
Psychology
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