Logical Abilities in Children: Volume 4: Reasoning and Concepts

ISBN-13: 9781138087736 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 256 str.

Daniel N. Osherson

Opis

Originally published in 1976, this fourth and final volume in a series that met with critical acclaim is concerned with a certain kind of answer to the question "What distinguishes the concepts that are a natural part of human languages from those that are merely expressible in language?" 

Spis treści

Preface.  Part 1: Introduction  1. Two Leftovers from Volume 3  2. Some Methodological Issues  3. A Deduction Model for Quantifiers  Part 2: Experimental Test of Mq, and the Question of Developmental Change  4. Experiment 1: Test of Mq with Adolescent Subjects  5. Experiment 2: Test of Mq with Child Subjects  6. Experiment 3: Test of the Model with Arguments Based on Time  7. Experiment 4: Test of Mt with Child Subjects  Part 3: Explanatory Adequacy of Deduction Models  8. Explanatory Adequecy: General Considerations  9. Proposals for a Theory of Conceptual Domains  Part 4: An Initial Test of the Theory  10. A Deduction Model for the Conceptual Domain of Necessity and Possibility  11. A Deduction Model for the Conceptual Domain of Obligation and Permissibility.  Epilogue.  Appendix Richard F. Poppen.  References.  Author Index.  Subject Index.

O autorze

Daniel N. Osherson