Language, Thought and Compositionality

By Jerry A. Fodor. Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, 2001

192 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Philosophy

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Citations in the corpus

• Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning: A Survey and Interpretation (2017, background): “(Fodor, 2001)—and that it should thus necessarily be studied at that level.”
• Symbolic Behaviour in Artificial Intelligence (2021, background): “In some cases, such approaches could even be detrimental; natural language, for example, is probably not strictly compositional [109, 110].”
• Transforming task representations to perform novel tasks (2020, background): “Fodor (41, 42) and Lake and Baroni (43) have advocated that cognition must use compositional representations to exhibit systematic and productive generalization.”