“Very like a whale”: Analogies about the mind need salient similarity to convey information

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 33 (4):350-351 (2010)
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Abstract

Knobe relies on unhelpful analogies in stating his main thesis about the mind. It isn't clear what saying the mind works, or doesn't work, or means. We suggest he should say that some think that human cognition respects a ban on fallacies of relevance, where considerations actually irrelevant to truth are taken as evidence. His research shows that no such ban is respected

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David Spurrett
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