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Reidentification and redescription

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 1998

Marc D. Hauser  and
W. Tecumseh Fitch
Marc D. Hauser
Affiliation:
Departments of Anthropology and Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138 hauser@wjh.harvard.eduwjh.harvard.edu/~mnkylab
W. Tecumseh Fitch
Affiliation:
Speech and Hearing Sciences Program, Harvard-MIT, Cambridge, MA 02138 tec@wjh.harvard.eduwjh.harvard.edu/~mnkylab
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Abstract

Millikan's account of substance concepts fails to do away with features. Her approach simply moves the suite of relevant features into an encapsulated module. The crux of the problem for scientists studying human infants and nonhuman animals is to determine how individuals reidentify objects and events in the world.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , February 1998 , pp. 74
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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