Knowledge, categorization, and the bliss of ignorance

Building Object Categories in Developmental Time

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 309-334

  Keil, Frank C ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781410612908     Document Type: Chapter

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