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Graceful degradation and conceptual development

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 May 2011

Frank Keil
Frank Keil
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520. frank.keil@yale.edu
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Abstract

In this book, Carey gives cognitive science a detailed account of the origins of concepts and an explanation of how origins stories are essential to understanding what concepts are and how we use them. At the same time, this book's details help highlight the challenge of explaining how conceptual change works with real-world concepts that often have heavily degraded internal content.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 34 , Issue 3 , June 2011 , pp. 133 - 134
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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