We present a new approach to language learning which is based on the following idea: if a language learner does not know which phrase-structure trees should be assigned to initial sentences, s/he allows (implicitly) for all possible trees and lets linguistic experience decide which is the ‘best’ tree for each sentence. The best tree is obtained by maximizing ‘structural analogy’ between a sente...

Abstract I identify two reasons for believing in the objectivity of mathematical knowledge: apparent and applications science. Focusing on arithmetic, analyze platonism cognitive nativism terms explaining these reasons. After establishing that both theories run into difficulties, present an alternative epistemological account combines theoretical frameworks enculturation cumulative cultural evo...

Henry Wellman and colleagues have provided evidence of a robust developmental progression in theory-of-mind (or as we will say, "mindreading") abilities, using verbal tasks. Understanding diverse desires is said to be easier than understanding diverse beliefs, which is easier than understanding that lack of perceptual access issues in ignorance, which is easier than understanding false belief, ...