Domain-specific knowledge and conceptual change BT - Mapping the mind: domain specificity in cognition and culture

  • Carey S
  • Spelke E
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We argue that human reasoning is guided by a collection of innate domain-specific systems of knowledge. Each system is characterized by a set of core principles that define the entities covered by the domain and support reasoning about those entities. Learning, on this view, ...

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Carey, S., & Spelke, E. (1994). Domain-specific knowledge and conceptual change BT  - Mapping the mind: domain specificity in cognition and culture. In L. A. Hirschfeld & S. A. Gelman (Eds.), Mapping the mind: domain specificity in cognition and culture. Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=n1tqi8Tux-kC&oi=fnd&pg=PA169&dq=carey+(spelke)&ots=WhgxQ3hbNn&sig=F1XZbPX8Vg4Up_alDGXM7RIQCzM

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