Whatever happened to meaning?
Behavioral and Brain Sciences 21 (1):79-80 (1998)
| Abstract | Even in infancy, concept formation has to do with creating meaning, not with tracking substances. Preverbal infants can identify a substance such as a dog, but their first concept of this substance is not dog but animal. It is difficult to account for such global concepts by the perceptual processes involved in object identification, yet these concepts are the foundation on which later concepts are built. | |||||||||
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