Fodor, J.D. (1977) Semantics: Theories of Meaning in Generative Grammar, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell.  Home/Search   Document Not in Database   Summary   Related Articles   Check

....i.e. approaches where concepts are structured in terms of features and relations. Accordingly, we shall not discuss non decompositional approaches such as the extensional approach where concepts are treated as unanalyzed units structured by meaning postulates (cf. Kintsch 1974; Fodor et al. 1975; Fodor 1977; Fodor et al. 1980) Nor shall we discuss non featural accounts such as the dimensional probabilistic approach and the holistic probabilistic approach (cf. Rosch et al. 1976b; Smith and Medin 1981: 130 142) 3.2.1 The Classical Approach The classical approach, ca, has its roots in the ....

Fodor, J. D. (1977). Semantics: Theories of meaning in generative grammar. New York: Crowell.

....leads to functionally distributed representations for concepts which in turn leads to the postulation of micro features; yet the inadequacies of feature based theories of concepts are well known and, to our knowledge, micro feature theory has done nothing to address them. See Bolinger, 1965; J.D. Fodor, 1977). Or again, the idea that the strength of a connection between neurons is affected is by the frequency of their co activation gets projected onto the cognitive level. The consequence is a resurgence of statistical models of learning that had been widely acknowledged (both in Psychology and in AI) ....

Fodor, J.D. (1977) Semantics: Theories of Meaning in Generative Grammar, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell.

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