COG SCI 1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Entscheidungsproblem, Wilhelm Wundt, Behaviorism
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Introduction: rationalist vs. empiricist, rationalist = some things are innate, empiricist = all things come from experience, crum = computational representational understanding of mind, cognition = information processing ii. iii. Innate knowledge; little evidence; argument from poverty of stimulus: locke, leibniz, neither principles nor ideas are innate, white paper, experience and reflection, experience is necessary but not sufficient to account for knowledge;, we need instances, necessary truths geometry/math, seeds of eternity, beasts are purely empirical, this separates us from the beasts, veins in the marble. e. Affirmation/denial: leibniz, the dream or wonderful idea language that could represent all ii. of human thought language as imperfect mirror of human thought, need an ideal language that perfectly represents the relationships between our thoughts . Can verify validity of aristotelian syllogisms using boole"s logic: logic, frege, begriffsschrift concept script; a formal language that aims to capture the relationships between our thoughts , propositional vs. predicate logic; quantification.
