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Individuals, properties, and the explicitness hierarchy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1999

Alex Barber
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, United Kingdoma.barber@sheffield.ac.uk

Abstract

The scenario used by Dienes & Perner to show that individual representation can be implicit when property representation is explicit can be adapted to show that property representation can be implicit when individual representation is explicit. So there is no hierarchy of explicitness, contrary to their claim. There is a reading of the “implicit/explicit” distinction that does appear to exhibit an asymmetry parallel to that alleged to hold between individual and property. But this is not a distinction Dienes & Perner mention, nor is it one that could be easily incorporated into their framework.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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