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Austere realism Contextual Semantics Meets Minimal Ontology
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Horgan, Terry

This work presents a provocative ontological-cum-semantic position stating that the right ontology is austere in its exclusion of numerous common-sense and scientific posits and that many statements employing such posits are nonetheless true.

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Connectionism and the Philosophy of Psychology
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Horgan, Terry,Tienson, John.

Human cognition is soft. It is too flexible, too rich, and too open-ended to be captured by hard (precise, exceptionless) rules of the sort that can constitute a computer program. In Connectionism and the Philosophy of Psychology, Horgan and Tienson articulate and defend a new view of cognition. In place of the classical paradigm that take the mind to be a computer (or a group of linked compute…

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1 online resource (xiii, 207 pages) :illustrations
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Austere realism :contextual semantics meets minimal ontology
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Horgan, Terry,Potr?c, Matja?z.

"A Bradford book."This work presents a provocative ontological-cum-semantic position stating that the right ontology is austere in its exclusion of numerous common-sense and scientific posits and that many statements employing such posits are nonetheless true.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

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9780262275682
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