Furnishing the mind : concepts and their perceptual basis / Jesse J. Prinz.

Western philosophy has long been divided between empiricists, who argue that human understanding has its basis in experience, and rationalists, who argue that reason is the source of knowledge. A central issue in the debate is the nature of concepts, the internal representations we use to think abou...

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Main Author: Prinz, Jesse J.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2002.
©2002
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