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Much of current cognitive science is a debate between two views of
thinking -- thinking as governed by mental rules and thinking as
governed by similarity among ideas. Contributors to this volume
explore these contrasting views in research on reasoning and concepts,
and consider their merits from the perspectives of cognition,
development, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence. The book
evaluates the potential of each view to describe human cognition and
examines whether systems compatible with these different perspectives
might work together in explaining thought. While maintaining a high
level of scientific sophistication, the book remains accessible to
undergraduates and researchers in other fields.
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