Re: The symbol grounding problem: Against Rosch & Wittgenstein

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From: Dan Gordon
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1987 19:02

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In article <931@mind.UUCP> harnad@mind.UUCP (Stevan Harnad) writes:
>(And I must repeat: Whether or not we can introspectvely report the features
>we are actually using is irrelevant. As long as reliable, consensual,
>all-or-none categorization performance is going on, there must be a set of
>underlying features governing it -- both with sensory and more

Is this so?  There is no reliable, consensual all-or-none categorization
performance without a set of underlying features?  That sounds like a
restatement of the categorization theorist's credo rather than a thing
that is so.

Dan Gordon

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Subject: Re: The symbol grounding problem: Against Rosch & Wittgenstein
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