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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John Benjamins Publishing Company
2023
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