Knowledge by ignoring

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 22 (5):781-781 (1999)
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Abstract

Some cases of implicit knowledge involve representations of (implicitly) known propositions, but this is not the only important type of implicit knowledge. Chomskian linguistics suggests another model of how humans can know more than is accessible to consciousness. Innate capacities to focus on a small range of possibilities, thereby ignoring many others, need not be grounded by inner representations of any possibilities ignored. This model may apply to many domains where human cognition “fills a gap” between stimuli and judgment.

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Paul Pietroski
Rutgers - New Brunswick
Susan Jane Dwyer
University of Maryland, College Park

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