Fodor's nativism

Kim Sterelny

doi:10.1007/BF00354184

Fodor's nativism

Kim Sterelny^*

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The upshot of all this is that very many lexical concepts are not triggered. Not is triggering is a brute-causal, non cognitive process. Concepts, by and large, are not acquired through the inductive confirmation of definitions. I think Fodor is right about that. But the experience that leads to their acquisition is not arbitrary, and is cognitively processed. It's not just switching on a little cognitive machine already there, or kick-starting an endogenously controlled process.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	119-141
Number of pages	23
Journal	Philosophical Studies
Volume	55
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00354184
Publication status	Published - Feb 1989
Externally published	Yes

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