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Quantification and the language of thought
Charles Kemp

Wed Dec 09 03:23 PM -- 03:24 PM (PST) @
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Many researchers have suggested that the psychological complexity of a concept is related to the length of its representation in a "language of thought. As yet, however, there are few concrete proposals about the nature of this language. This paper makes one such proposal: the language of thought allows first order quantification (quantification over objects) more readily than second-order quantification (quantification over features). To support this proposal we present behavioral results from a concept learning study inspired by the work of Shepard, Hovland and Jenkins.

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Charles Kemp (Carnegie Mellon University)

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