COG250Y1 Lecture 3: cogsci lect 3pdf
1 Nov 2015
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Top down process, referred to in psychology)as opposed to bottom down. Doesn"t rely on a similarity in world. Explains powerful things: why we find certain things synonyms, because they are. Therefore you cant have concepts stored ahead of time but you can produce a lot of them productivity is explained by compositionality ( property of composing things together) Finite number of rules for combing them together. Ex. composing on a piano, there are a set of keys but there can never be a last. Lego model is a unified account to explain intuitions on how concepts were and. Problem: this is most likely false despite our strong institutions that that is how productivity works how concepts work. Host of problems ( in contrast to the classical theory) Need to find unified account to all problems. He challenges you to find a definition for games. for all and only games. Conclusion: there is no good definition for games.
