A symbol is not a symbol

  • Authors:

  • Nils Dahlback

  • Affiliations:

  • Natural Language Processing Laboratory, Department of Computer and Information Science, Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden

  • Venue:
  • IJCAI'89 Proceedings of the 11th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 1989

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Abstract

One of the weak points of the present critics of AI is their lack of an alternative cognitive theory. In the paper the outline of such a theory is sketched, based on (one reading) of Piaget's genetic epistemology. This is used to clarify the ambiguity of the terms 'symbol' and 'representation', thereby making it possible to suggest a reconciliation of the positions of the critics and defenders of the representational theory of the mind.