Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Table of Contents - 1999 - Volume 22, Issue 04  


Open Peer Commentary
Barsalou: Perpetual symbol systems

What makes perceptual symbols perceptual?

Murat Aydede a1
a1 The University of Chicago, Department of Philosophy, Chicago, IL 60637 m-aydede@uchicago.edu http://humanities.uchicago.edu/faculty/aydede/

Abstract

Three major attempts by Barsalou to specify what makes a perceptual symbol perceptual fail. One way to give such an account is to use symbols' causal/nomic relation to what they represent, roughly the way contemporary informational psychosemanticists develop their theories, but this fails to draw the distinction Barsalou seems to have in mind.


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