Dual character concepts and the normative dimension of conceptual representation

Cognition

Volumn 127, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 242-257

  Knobe, Joshua ^a   Prasada, Sandeep ^b,c   Newman, George E ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Concepts; Natural kinds; Teleology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHARACTER; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONDITIONING; CRITERION VARIABLE; DECISION MAKING; EVALUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE; INTUITION; KNOWLEDGE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; JUDGMENT; MALE; MOTHERS; MUSIC; PHARMACISTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SCIENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84874478321     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2013.01.005     Document Type: Article

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