Ian Hacking 2001 Aristotelian Categories and Cognitive Domains伊恩黑客亚里士多德分类和认知域.pdfVIP

IAN HACKING ARISTOTELIAN CATEGORIES AND COGNITIVE DOMAINS ABSTRACT. This paper puts together an ancient and a recent approach to classificatory language, thought, and ontology. It includes on the one hand an interpretation of Aristotle’s ten categories, with remarks on his first category, called (or translated as) substance in the Categories or What a thing is in the Topics. On the other hand is the idea of domain- specific cognitive abilities urged in contemporary developmental psychology. Each family of ideas can be used to