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Rules and similarity – a false dichotomy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2005

James A. Hampton
James A. Hampton*
Affiliation:
Psychology Department, City University, Northampton Square, LondonEC1V OHB, United Kingdomwww.staff.city.ac.uk/hampton
*
hampton@city.ac.uk
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Abstract

Unless restricted to explicitly held, sharable beliefs that control and justify a person's behavior, the notion of a rule has little value as an explanatory concept. Similarity-based processing is a general characteristic of the mind-world interface where internal processes (including explicitly represented rules) act on the external world. The distinction between rules and similarity is therefore misconceived.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 28 , Issue 1 , February 2005 , pp. 26
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2005

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