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Full Idea
Infant behaviour implies inbuilt ontological categories of thing, place, event, path, action, sound, manner, amount and number. ...There is an algebra of relationships between them.
Clarification
'Ontology' is a theory about what exists
Gist of Idea
Infant brains appear to have inbuilt ontological categories
Source
Alvin I. Goldman (Phil Applications of Cognitive Science [1993], p.109)
Book Ref
Goldman,Alvin I.: 'Philosophical Applications of Cognitive Science' [Westview 1993], p.109
A Reaction
Interesting. We would expect the categories in infant brains to have instrumental value, but we don't have to accept them as true. Adults (even Aristotle) are big infants.