What's so essential about essentialism? A different perspective on the interaction of perception, language, and conceptual knowledge

Susan A. Gelman; Douglas L. Medin

doi:10.1016/0885-2014(93)90011-S

What's so essential about essentialism? A different perspective on the interaction of perception, language, and conceptual knowledge

Susan A. Gelman^*, Douglas L. Medin

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Psychology

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Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	157-167
Number of pages	11
Journal	Cognitive Development
Volume	8
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0885-2014(93)90011-S
State	Published - 1993

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Jones and Smith see conflict and contrast between their results and those of our own. They seem to suggest that, because we propose that nonobvious features are important, we are claiming that obvious features are unimportant. Not so. We Authors are listed alphabetically. The writing of this article was supported by NSF Grant 91-00348 to S.A. Gelman and NSF Grant 91-10245 to D.L. Medin. We thank Evan Heit for helpful comments on an earlier draft of this article.

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Developmental and Educational Psychology

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