Chapter published in:
The Abstraction Engine: Extracting patterns in language, mind and brainMichael Fortescue
[Advances in Consciousness Research 94] 2017
► pp. 123–148
Chapter 10The philosophical approach
Article outline
- 10.1Philosophers on ideas, universals and abstraction
- 10.2Mathematical and formal semantic abstraction
- 10.3A Whiteheadian perspective on abstraction
- 10.4‘Transmutation’ applied to the mental lexicon
- 10.5A nudge from Wittgenstein: Similarity and context
