Single Idea 17981

[catalogued under 18. Thought / D. Concepts / 4. Structure of Concepts / e. Concepts from exemplars]

Full Idea

The findings showing that children use knowledge and may be essentialist about category membership do not comport well with the exemplar view.

Gist of Idea

Children using knowing and essentialist categories doesn't fit the exemplar view

Source

Gregory L. Murphy (The Big Book of Concepts [2004], Ch.13)

Book Reference

Murphy,Gregory L.: 'The Big Book of Concepts' [MIT 2004], p.485


A Reaction

Tricky, because Gelman persuaded me of the essentialism, but the exemplar view of concepts looks the most promising. Clearly they must be forced to coexist....

Related Ideas

Idea 17980 The main theories of concepts are exemplar, prototype and knowledge [Murphy]

Idea 17977 The exemplar view of concepts says 'dogs' is the set of dogs I remember [Murphy]

Idea 17982 Exemplar theory struggles with hierarchical classification and with induction [Murphy]