PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Combinatorial Explosion, Phonetics, Pragmatics
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The micro theory can explain most of what the other theories could. Theories can explain when we have definitions. It is when your explanations turn out to be law like, f=ma. Essences are what science finds when our theories turn out to be deeply true. It can explain conceptual combination: consider engine repair vs. expert repair. It can explain why people have relations between features. Perhaps we have multiple levels of top-down bottom up processing trying to make sense of the world. Perhaps language causes us to fixate on certain levels. Consider matson"s concept of sizing up revised by verveke. But if this is the case then our theory of categorization has just dissolved into our theory of learning, memory, problem solving, and in fact it has just dissolved into our theory of intelligence. So we see two issues that intersect with categorization: language and the other, intelligence. Also seen issue of intelligence intersecting with problem solving and reasoning.
