Millikan’s consistency testers and the cultural evolution of concepts

Ruth Millikan has hypothesised that human cognition contains ‘consistency testers’. Consistency testers check whether different judgements a thinker makes about the same subject matter agree or conflict. Millikan’s suggestion is that, where the same concept has been applied to the world via two rout...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shea, N
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: John Benjamins Publishing Company 2023