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Single Idea 12617
[filed under theme 12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 2. Associationism
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Full Idea
The essential problem is to explain how thinking manages reliably to preserve truth; and Associationism, as Kant rightly pointed out to Hume, hasn't the resources to do so.
Gist of Idea
Associationism can't explain how truth is preserved
Source
Jerry A. Fodor (Concepts:where cogn.science went wrong [1998], Ch.1)
Book Ref
Fodor,Jerry A.: 'Concepts: where cognitive science went wrong' [OUP 1998], p.10
A Reaction
One might be able to give an associationist account of truth-preservation if one became a bit more externalist about it, so that the normal association patterns track their connections with the external world.
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[knowledge built by ideas forming links in the mind]:
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Once we have experienced two feelings together, one will always give rise to the other
[Spinoza]
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12527
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Some ideas connect together naturally, while others connect by chance or custom
[Locke]
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12542
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Knowledge is just the connection or disagreement of our ideas
[Locke]
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12555
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The constant link between whiteness and things that produce it is the basis of our knowledge
[Locke]
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2189
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All ideas are connected by Resemblance, Contiguity in time or place, and Cause and Effect
[Hume]
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6489
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Associationism results from having to explain intentionality just with sense-data
[Robinson,H on Hume]
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22005
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Associations and causes cannot explain content, which needs norms of judgement
[Kant, by Pinkard]
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23697
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I exist just as an intelligence aware of its faculty for combination
[Kant]
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14765
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Association of ideas is the best philosophical idea of the prescientific age
[Peirce]
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19253
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We talk of 'association by resemblance' but that is wrong: the association constitutes the resemblance
[Peirce]
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24211
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Associations are not lawlike, because we make arbitrary choice of which representation matters
[Weil]
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15269
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Humean impressions are too instantaneous and simple to have structure or relations
[Harré/Madden]
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4047
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Gestalt psychology proposes inbuilt proximity, similarity, smoothness and closure principles
[Goldman]
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12617
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Associationism can't explain how truth is preserved
[Fodor]
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2493
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According to empiricists abstraction is the fundamental mental process
[Fodor]
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3978
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Associations are held to connect Ideas together in the way the world is connected together
[Fodor]
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7510
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Connectionists say the mind is a general purpose learning device
[Pinker]
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14955
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Rats find some obvious associations easier to learn than less obvious ones
[Ladyman/Ross]
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11141
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Modern empiricism tends to emphasise psychological connections, not semantic relations
[Margolis/Laurence]
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