Thinking and Computing: Computers as Special Kinds of Signs

Minds and Machines

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 345-364

  Fetzer, James H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Cognitive science; Computers; Computing; Kinds of minds; Minds; Signs; Thinking; Types of signs

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DIGITAL COMPUTERS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

COGNITIVE SCIENCE;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 0031198133     PISSN: 09246495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008230900201     Document Type: Article

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