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What is empirical about Atran's taxonomies?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 1998

Barbara Saunders
Barbara Saunders
Affiliation:
Higher Institute of Philosophy, University of Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium; and Department of Anthropology, University of Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium pop00127@mail.cc.kuleuven.ac.be
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Abstract

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Atran reifies Fodor's metaphor of modularity to create a truth-producing apparatus to generate a priori taxonomies or natural kinds that lock a tautology in place.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 4 , August 1998 , pp. 587 - 588
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© 1998 Cambridge University Press