COG SCI 190 Study Guide - Turing Machine, Modus Ponens, First-Order Logic
7 Jan 2014
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A rationalist would say that some of it is innate while and empiricist would say that all knowledge comes from experience. A rationalist would say that it is language-like, propositional, and logical. An empiricist would argue that it is experience-like, imagistic, and associative. A rationalist would say yes; an empiricist would say not fundamentally. Rationalists believe that knowledge comes partly from reason, however there are some aspects that are innate. An empiricist would argue that neither principles nor ideas are innate. Rationalists include plato, leibniz, boole, frege, turing, and chomsky. Empiricists include aristotle, locke, and skinner: crum = computational-representational understanding of mind cognition = information processing. Information processing operates on representations (symbols that have meaning). The study of information processing can be divorced from physiology and biology. Innateness : aristotle: blank slate; a writing tablet on which as yet nothing actually stands, plato: innate knowledge; we could not have learned everything we know.
