Quantification and the Language of Thought
Abstract
Many researchers have suggested that the psychological complexity of a concept is related to the length of its representation in a language of thought. As yet, however, there are few concrete proposals about the nature of this language. This paper makes one such proposal: the language of thought allows first order quantification (quantification over objects) more readily than second-order quantification (quantification over features). To support this proposal we present behavioral results from a concept learning study inspired by the work of Shepard, Hovland and Jenkins."
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Kemp. "Quantification and the Language of Thought." Neural Information Processing Systems, 2009.Markdown
[Kemp. "Quantification and the Language of Thought." Neural Information Processing Systems, 2009.](https://mlanthology.org/neurips/2009/kemp2009neurips-quantification/)BibTeX
@inproceedings{kemp2009neurips-quantification,
title = {{Quantification and the Language of Thought}},
author = {Kemp, Charles},
booktitle = {Neural Information Processing Systems},
year = {2009},
pages = {943-951},
url = {https://mlanthology.org/neurips/2009/kemp2009neurips-quantification/}
}