ISSN 1671-3710
CN 11-4766/R
主办:中国科学院心理研究所
出版:科学出版社

›› 2005, Vol. 13 ›› Issue (4): 466-478.

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Representation of Artifacts’ Concepts: Function, Intention, and Teleological Explanation

Sun Yuhao,Fu Xiaolan   

  1. State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Science Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
  • Received:2005-03-28 Revised:1900-01-01 Online:2005-07-15 Published:2005-07-15
  • Contact: Fu Xiaolan

Abstract: This paper proposed that “using-goal” instead of “intended design” as the top-down constraints in representation of artifact concepts after reviewing intentional-historical theory (Bloom, 1996) of artifact concepts and its evidences reported recently. Basing on analysis on experiments reported recently, a using-based teleological explanatory mode for representation of artifact concepts and a dual-goal model for artifacts’ categorization were advanced.

Key words: Conceptual structure, Artifacts, intention, function, teleology, explanation-based theory

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