EXPLAINING SYSTEMATICITY

Despite the considerable attention that the systematicity argument has enjoyed, it is worthwhile examining the argument within the context o f similar explanatory arguments from the history of science. This kind of analysis helps show that Connectionism, qua Connectionism, really does not have an explanation of systematicity. Second, and more surpri singly, one finds that the systematicity argument sets such a high exp lanatory standard that not even Classicism can explain the systematici ty of thought.