ETIOLOGIC CLASSIFICATION AND THE ACQUISITION AND STRUCTURE OF KNOWLEDGE

Authors
Citation
Mt. Ghiselin, ETIOLOGIC CLASSIFICATION AND THE ACQUISITION AND STRUCTURE OF KNOWLEDGE, Behavioral and brain sciences, 21(1), 1998, pp. 72
Citations number
2
Categorie Soggetti
Psychology, Biological",Neurosciences,"Behavioral Sciences
ISSN journal
0140525X
Volume
21
Issue
1
Year of publication
1998
Database
ISI
SICI code
0140-525X(1998)21:1<72:ECATAA>2.0.ZU;2-3
Abstract
Millikan's account of how we acquire our most basic concepts might be clarified by a better ontological taxonomy, especially one that distin guishes between natural kinds on the one hand and wholes composed of p orts on the other. The two have a different causal basis, which is imp ortant because once classification goes beyond the stage of naive indu ction, it becomes fundamentally etiological.