Behavioral and Brain Sciences



Short Communication

Natura non facit saltum: The need for the full continuum of mental representations


Robert M. French a1
a1 Department of Cognitive Science, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium rfrench@ulg.ac.be

Abstract

Natura non facit saltum (Nature does not make leaps) was the lovely aphorism on which Darwin based his work on evolution. It applies as much to the formation of mental representations as to the formation of species, and therein lies our major disagreement with the SOC model proposed by Perruchet & Vinter.