Systematicity, conceptual truth, and evolution

Philosophy and the Cognitive Sciences 34:217-234 (1992)
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Smolensky's (1995) proposal for a connectionist explanation of systematicity doesn't work

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The Varieties of Reference.Gareth Evans - 1982 - Oxford: Oxford University Press. Edited by John Henry McDowell.
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Epistemology and cognition.Alvin I. Goldman - 1986 - Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

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