Minimal rationalism
Mind 102 (408):587-610 (1993)
| Abstract | Enquiries into the possible nature and scope of innate knowledge never proceed in an empirical vaccuum. Instead, such conjectures are informed by a theory (perhaps only tacitly endorsed) concerning probable representational form. Classical approaches to the nativism debate often assume a quasi-linguistic form of knowledge representation and deliniate a space of options (concerning the nature and extent of innate knowledge) accordingly. Recent connectionist theorizing posits a different kind of represenational form, and thus determines a different picture of the space of possible nativisms | |||||||||
| Keywords | Connectionism Epistemology Innate Knowledge Nativism Rationalism | |||||||||
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