Can Innateness Ascriptions Avoid Tautology?

This article deals with the question whether innateness ascriptions in cognitive science---for instance, the postulation of an innate language faculty---can avoid tautology. First I shall argue that innateness is very difficult to define. As a dispositional notion, innateness faces the ``problem of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Valentine Reynaud
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Éditions Kimé 2014-10-01
Series:Philosophia Scientiæ
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/philosophiascientiae/1013