title: Spare Me the Complements: An Immoderate Proposal for Eliminating the "We/They" Category Boundary
creator: Harnad, Stevan
subject: Cognitive Psychology
description: A speculative hypothesis about how to eliminate the "we/they" distinction by rearing children (during early critical years) in "aggregates in flux" instead of in kinship-based families: A category cannot be formed from positive examples only: one must be able to sample both what is and what is not in a category in order to recognise the category at all. The basis for the distinction is the features shared by the members (invariants), and absent from the non-members. In "aggregates in flux," the individual members would be constantly varying (and unrelated, genetically). The only invariant would be that they are all human.
contributor: Villaroya, Oscar
contributor: Valencia, Leonardo
date: 2005
type: Book Chapter
type: NonPeerReviewed
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identifier: http://cogprints.org/4151/1/we-they.htm
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identifier: http://cogprints.org/4151/2/we-they.pdf
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identifier: http://cogprints.org/4151/3/we-they.doc
identifier:   Harnad, Stevan  (2005) Spare Me the Complements: An Immoderate Proposal for Eliminating the "We/They" Category Boundary.  [Book Chapter]    (In Press)  
relation: http://cogprints.org/4151/