Frege's puzzle and Frege cases: Defending a quasi-syntactic solution

Cognitive Systems Research

Volumn 9, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 76-91

  Rupert, Robert D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Concept acquisition; Frege cases; Frege's puzzle; Language learning; Mental content; Mental representation; Symbol grounding

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; FORMAL LANGUAGES; LEARNING SYSTEMS; QUASICRYSTALS;

COGNITIVE VEHICLES; CONCEPT ACQUISITION; FREGE'S PUZZLE; MENTAL CONTENT; MENTAL REPRESENTATION;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMAN; INTUITION; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SYMBOLISM;

EID: 44249107392     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13890417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogsys.2007.07.003     Document Type: Article

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