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Behav Brain Sci
; 37(5): 494-5, 2014 Oct.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-25388041
ABSTRACT
We argue that the claim that essence-based causal explanations emerge, hydra-like, from an inherence heuristic is incomplete. No plausible mechanism for the transition from concrete properties, or cues, to essences is provided. Moreover, the fundamental shotgun and storytelling mechanisms of the inherence heuristic are not clearly enough specified to distinguish them, developmentally, from associative or causal networks.