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J. A. Fodor: 1975,The Language of Thought, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York.
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Karl Popper has argued inConjectures and Refutations, 1963, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London,
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J. A. Fodor, ‘Methodological Solipsism ...’op. cit. p. 310.
Ibid.
ibid. p. 325.
Ibid. p. 327.
Hilary Putnam summarizes these difficulties with trying to formulate a purely formal inductive logic in hisReason, Truth and History, 1981, Cambridge Universtiy Press, Cambridge, pp. 188ff.
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Williams, M. Language learning and the representational theory of mind. Synthese 58, 129–151 (1984). http://doi.org/10.1007/BF03055303
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