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12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 2. Associationism

2493	According to empiricists abstraction is the fundamental mental process [Fodor]
	Full Idea: According to empiricists, the fundamental mental process is not theory construction but abstraction.
	From: Jerry A. Fodor (In a Critical Condition [2000], Ch.12)

12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 5. Empiricism Critique

2494	Rationalists say there is more to a concept than the experience that prompts it [Fodor]
	Full Idea: That there is more in the content of a concept than there is in the experiences that prompt us to form it is the burden of the traditional rationalist critique of empiricism (as worked out by Leibniz and Kant).
	From: Jerry A. Fodor (In a Critical Condition [2000], Ch.12)