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....phenomenon as precisely as possible and poses the problem of automating it. Previous approaches to the problem are critically examined and the solution methodology proposed in this thesis is presented. A cognitive phenomenon like reformulation can be explained at three different levels [Pyl84]: the intensional, semantics or knowledge level; the symbolic, syntactic or functional level; and the physical or biological level. An explanation of a phenomenon at the intensional level appeals to the semantic content of representations in an agent. The regularities of the phenomenon are ....

Z. Pylyshyn. Cognition and Computation. Cambridge, MIT Press, 1984.

....The more semantic the processing involved, the greater the role played by concepts in this processing, and thus the greater the scope for top down influences. The most abstract of all types of perception, the understanding of complete situations, is also the most flexible. Recently both Pylyshyn (1980) and Fodor (1983) have argued against the existence of topdown influences in perception, claiming that perceptual processes are cognitively impenetrable or informationally encapsulated . These arguments are highly controversial, but in any case they apply mostly to relatively low level sensory ....

Pylyshyn, Z. (1980). Cognition and computation. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 3: 111-132.

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