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Explaining Systematicity
Author(s) -
AIZAWA KENNETH
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
mind and language
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.905
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1468-0017
pISSN - 0268-1064
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0017.1997.tb00065.x
Subject(s) - connectionism , argument (complex analysis) , epistemology , context (archaeology) , psychology , cognitive science , philosophy , cognition , biochemistry , chemistry , neuroscience , paleontology , biology
Despite the considerable attention that the systematicity argument has enjoyed, it is worthwhile examining the argument within the context of 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 surprisingly, one finds that the systematicity argument sets such a high explanatory standard that not even Classicism can explain the systematicity of thought.