Lexicon of Arguments

 

I 109
Learning: "Bachelor": is linked with words - "coin": is linked with object. -> Russell: acquaintance/description.
I 150
When learning words we have to learn to send and receive (amplification process), we have not yet considered intelligent hearing.
I 151
After all, the child responds to suggestive clues the very first time it hears new words, at this stage its learning becomes independent of operant behaviour.
I 156
In the first learning phase vagueness plays an essential role. Distribution around central standard values of norm "More or less red" can be more fundamental for learning than the red norm.
>Vagueness/Quine.
I 404
Learning by stimuli > sense data - rather VsPhysicalism than VsNominalism.
II 19 et seqq.
What kind of items do we require? Body, for sure. Primary learning is done through Ostension. But under divergent circumstances. It must therefore be a versatile sentence that applies irrespective of the point of view. Summary under a single name.
II 76
Conditioning/Quine: cannot be learned itself.
IV 420
Learning: is the formation of a reliable hypothesis as to which behaviours in a group are regarded as approval or rejection. This provides an efficient method for researching the semantics of a foreign language.
V 37
Learning/perception/similarity/perceptual similarity/Quine: different degrees of similarity must play a role in learning.
N.B.: otherwise any increased response would be equally conditioned to any future episode, since they would all be equally similar.
>Language Acquisition/Quine.