Recognition: Philosophical Studies and Their Relation to Psychology
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Authors
Rakowsky, Katherine E., 1960-2003
Issue Date
1980
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Thesis
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en_US
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The issue of behavioral and linguistic evidence points
to a question about the nature of recognition: are we to
conceive of recognition as a pattern of responses to certain
objects, or are we to conceive of it as an internal, subjective
experience? I will forgo discussion of this question until
the conclusion, but it should be kept in mind through the
following chapters. In these pages I will explore categorization
and its relationship to recognition, especially sortal
recognition, and the constraints on any attempts to simulate
human recognitive powers using a computer. The classical
theory, objections to it, and two alternatives will be explored,
in the hope that they will contribute to our understanding
of what it is to recognize an object.
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iii, 89 p.
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