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- Title
The causes of characteristic properties: Insides versus categories.
- Authors
Strevens, Michael
- Abstract
Cimpian & Salomon (C&S) propose that the inherence heuristic, a tendency to explain the behavior and other properties of things in terms of their intrinsic characteristics, precedes and explains "essentialist thinking'' about natural kinds. This commentary reviews evidence that it is rather essentialism (or something like it) that precedes the assumption of inherence, and suggests diat essentialism can do without the inherence heuristic altogether.
- Subjects
HEURISTIC; INTRINSIC motivation; HEURISTIC programming; BEHAVIORISM (Psychology); CONDUCT of life; ATTITUDE (Psychology); PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 2014, Vol 37, Issue 5, p502
- ISSN
0140-525X
- Publication type
Opinion
- DOI
10.1017/S0140525X13003889