--- abstract: '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.' altloc: - http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?SerieId=CS - http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/10702/01/we-they.htm - http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/10702/02/we-they.pdf - http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/10702/03/we-they.doc chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: - 63 creators_name: - family: Harnad given: Stevan honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 2007 date_type: published datestamp: 2007-02-24 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/54/12 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: - family: Villaroya given: Oscar honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Forn given: Francesc honourific: '' lineage: '' eprint_status: archive eprintid: 5412 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/text_html.png;/5412/1/we%2Dthey.htm|/style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png;/5412/2/we%2Dthey.pdf|/style/images/fileicons/other.png;/5412/3/we%2Dthey.doc full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: inpress issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: 'category learning, uncomplemented categories, early experience, socialization, critical period, ethnocentrism, we/they distinction' lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:56:46 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: "Also available on the publisher's website: http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?SerieId=CS" number: ~ pagerange: ~ pubdom: FALSE publication: Social Brain Matters. Stances on the Neurobiology of Social Cognition publisher: 'Éditions Rodopi, Amsterdam/New York' refereed: FALSE referencetext: |- Harnad, S. (1987, unpublished) Uncomplemented Categories, or, What is it Like to be a Bachelor? 1987 Presidential Address: Society for Philosophy and Psychology. http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/documents/disk0/00/00/21/34/index.html Harnad, S. (2003) Categorical Perception. Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. Nature Publishing Group. Macmillan. http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/catperc.html Harnad, S. (2003) Symbol-Grounding Problem. Encylopedia of Cognitive Science. Nature Publishing Group. Macmillan. http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/symgro.htm Harnad, S. (2003) Cognition is Categorization. UQaM Summer Institute in Cognitive Sciences on Categorization. http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/catconf.html relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 16 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2007-09-12 17:09:40 subjects: - cog-psy succeeds: 4151 suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: 'Spare Me the Complements: An Immoderate Proposal for Eliminating the "We/They" Category Boundary' type: bookchapter userid: 63 volume: ~