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Single Idea 4048
[filed under theme 7. Existence / E. Categories / 2. Categorisation
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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.
The
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from Alvin I. Goldman
4047
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Gestalt psychology proposes inbuilt proximity, similarity, smoothness and closure principles
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4048
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Infant brains appear to have inbuilt ontological categories
[Goldman]
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4049
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The way in which colour experiences are evoked is physically odd and unpredictable
[Goldman]
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4044
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Rat behaviour reveals a considerable ability to count
[Goldman]
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4045
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Children may have three innate principles which enable them to learn to count
[Goldman]
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4043
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Elephants can be correctly identified from as few as three primitive shapes
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4262
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If the only aim was consistent beliefs then new evidence and experiments would be irrelevant
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6871
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We can't only believe things if we are currently conscious of their justification - there are too many
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6872
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Internalism must cover Forgotten Evidence, which is no longer retrievable from memory
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6873
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Coherent justification seems to require retrieving all our beliefs simultaneously
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6874
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Internal justification needs both mental stability and time to compute coherence
[Goldman]
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6875
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Reliability involves truth, and truth is external
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8831
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Introspection is really retrospection; my pain is justified by a brief causal history
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8829
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Justification depends on the reliability of its cause, where reliable processes tend to produce truth
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8830
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A belief can be justified when the person has forgotten the evidence for it
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8832
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If justified beliefs are well-formed beliefs, then animals and young children have them
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