http://cogprints.org/id/eprint/4151 2011-03-11T08:55:52Z info:eu-repo/semantics/descriptiveMetadata Spare Me the Complements: An Immoderate Proposal for Eliminating the "We/They" Category Boundary Harnad, Stevan Cognitive Psychology A speculative hypothesis about how to eliminate the "we/they" distinction by rearing children (during early critical years) in "aggregates in flux" instead of in kinship-based families: A category cannot be formed from positive examples only: one must be able to sample both what is and what is not in a category in order to recognise the category at all. The basis for the distinction is the features shared by the members (invariants), and absent from the non-members. In "aggregates in flux," the individual members would be constantly varying (and unrelated, genetically). The only invariant would be that they are all human. Villaroya, Oscar Valencia, Leonardo 2005 Book Chapter NonPeerReviewed text/html http://cogprints.org/4151/1/we-they.htm application/pdf http://cogprints.org/4151/2/we-they.pdf other http://cogprints.org/4151/3/we-they.doc Harnad, Stevan (2005) Spare Me the Complements: An Immoderate Proposal for Eliminating the "We/They" Category Boundary. [Book Chapter] (In Press) http://cogprints.org/4151/ info:eu-repo/semantics/objectFile info:eu-repo/semantics/objectFile info:eu-repo/semantics/objectFile info:eu-repo/semantics/humanStartPage