Confessions of a Confirmed Extentionalist and Other Essays

摘要

Quine has no problem with innate structure as such; still, he goes wrong in his pinched generalist conception of what is innate. [...] on the one hand, the complexities of the neonatal mind are too much for a Lockean blank slate to model; on the other hand, by implication, we are meant to imagine that a general inductive principle defined over similarity measures in a perceptual space can reconstruct the relevant complexities.