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Above and beyond “Above and beyond the concrete”

2020; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 43; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s0140525x20000023

1469-1825

Michael Gilead, Yaacov Trope, Nira Liberman,

Language, Metaphor, and Cognition

The commentaries address our view of abstraction, our ontology of abstract entities, and our account of predictive cognition as relying on relatively concrete simulation or relatively abstract theory-based inference. These responses revisit classic questions concerning mental representation and abstraction in the context of current models of predictive cognition. The counter arguments to our article echo: constructivist theories of knowledge, "neat" approaches in artificial intelligence and decision theory, neo-empiricist models of concepts, and externalist views of cognition. We offer several empirical predictions that address points of contention and that highlight the generative potential of our model.