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Induction and knowledge-what

Gärdenfors, Peter LU and Stephens, Andreas LU orcid (2018) In European Journal for Philosophy of Science 8(3). p.471-491
Abstract
Within analytic philosophy, induction has been seen as a problem concerning inferences that have been analysed as relations between sentences. In this article, we argue that induction does not primarily concern relations between sentences, but between properties and categories. We outline a new approach to induction that is based on two theses. The first thesis is epistemological. We submit that there is not only knowledge-how and knowledge-that, but also knowledge-what. Knowledge-what concerns relations between properties and categories and we argue that it cannot be reduced to knowledge-that. We support the partition of knowledge by mapping it onto the long-term memory systems: procedural, semantic and episodic memory. The second thesis... (More)
Within analytic philosophy, induction has been seen as a problem concerning inferences that have been analysed as relations between sentences. In this article, we argue that induction does not primarily concern relations between sentences, but between properties and categories. We outline a new approach to induction that is based on two theses. The first thesis is epistemological. We submit that there is not only knowledge-how and knowledge-that, but also knowledge-what. Knowledge-what concerns relations between properties and categories and we argue that it cannot be reduced to knowledge-that. We support the partition of knowledge by mapping it onto the long-term memory systems: procedural, semantic and episodic memory. The second thesis is that the role of inductive reasoning is to generate knowledge-what. We use conceptual spaces to model knowledge-what and the relations between properties and categories involved in induction. (Less)
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Inductive inferences, Knowledge-what, Semantic memory, Conceptual knowledge, Naturalistic epistemology
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European Journal for Philosophy of Science
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8
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3
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471 - 491
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Springer
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1879-4912
DOI
10.1007/s13194-017-0196-y
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Cognitive Philosophy Research Group (CogPhi)
Thinking in Time: Cognition, Communication and Learning
Cognitive Epistemology
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English
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  series       = {{European Journal for Philosophy of Science}},
  title        = {{Induction and knowledge-what}},
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  doi          = {{10.1007/s13194-017-0196-y}},
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