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. 2020 Jun 19:43:e148.
doi: 10.1017/S0140525X19003066.

A modern materialist approach to abstraction, concreteness, and explanation in cognition

Richard Shillcock  1
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A modern materialist approach to abstraction, concreteness, and explanation in cognition

Richard Shillcock. Behav Brain Sci. .

Abstract

Although endorsing the authors' concentration on the issue of abstraction, I critique (a) the philosophical nature of their abstract-concrete dimension, (b) their view of the brain-world barrier, and (c) their implicit positivist one-way hierarchy that has abstraction as the goal.

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