Mental representations remain the central posits of psychology after many decades of
scrutiny. However, there is no consensus about the representational format (s) of biological …

In the cognitive, computational, and neuro-sciences, practitioners often reason about what
computational models represent or learn, as well as what algorithm is instantiated. The …

Polysemy, understood as instances of a single linguistic expression having multiple related
senses, is not a homogenous phenomenon. There are regular (apparently, rule‐based) …

“Analytic” sentences, such as “Pediatricians are doctors,” have historically been
characterized as ones that are true by virtue of the meanings of their words alone and/or can …

Crowdfunding has become immensely popular today, allowing entrepreneurs to present
innovative ideas to a broad audience of potential investors. However, due to the online …

Representing objects in terms of their kinds enables inferences based on the long-term
knowledge made available through kind concepts. For example, children readily use lexical …

This article proposes that predicate order and coherence relations are the two major
determining factors in copredication licensing, resolving a long-standing puzzle over the …

The paper will argue that copredications are semantically incoherent, and that their apparent
coherence is a species of illusion. If this claim is right, then the longstanding difficulty of …

As AI systems become increasingly competent language users, it is an apt moment to
consider what it would take for machines to understand human languages. This paper …

There are two versions of the language-of-thought hypothesis (LOT): Representational LOT
(roughly, structured representation), introduced by Ockham, and computational LOT …