Talk:Jerry Fodor on mental architecture
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[edit] Superseded?
How much of this article is superseded by Fodor's later views on modularity and the limits of Chomsky's model in The Mind Doesn't Work That Way, 2001? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.175.173.94 (talk) 16:10, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Complex concepts
"He will accept, for example, that the complex concept AIRPLANE may be composed out of simpler concepts such as FLYING and MACHINE". To my knowledge, this is false. At least such a position was explicitly argued against in Fodor's "Concepts: WTCSWW". BROWN COW is a simple concept composed of BROWN and COW, but not AIRPLANE, which by Fodor's standard is a simple concepts and hence an atomic concept. I suggest that the quoted statement be removed unless someone can provide a supporting reference. Ariosto (talk) 17:29, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
