Mandler, JM;
(1998)
Whatever happened to meaning? Commentary on Millikan: A common structure for concepts of individuals, stuffs, and real kinds.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
, 21
(1)
79 - 80.
10.1017/S0140525X98380401.
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Abstract
Even in infancy, concept formation has to do with creating meaning, not with tracking substances. Preverbal infants can identify a substance such as a dog, but their first concept of this substance is not dog but animal. It is difficult to account for such global concepts by the perceptual processes involved in object identification, yet these concepts are the foundation on which later concepts are built.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Whatever happened to meaning? Commentary on Millikan: A common structure for concepts of individuals, stuffs, and real kinds |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1017/S0140525X98380401 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X98380401 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright 1998 Cambridge University Press |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/58379 |
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