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Quinian bootstrapping: a standalone construct

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Cognitive development

a learning mechanism in which placeholder symbols and analogies let children build new concepts, such as integers, not expressible in their earlier conceptual system.

In cognitive development, Quinian bootstrapping refers to a learning mechanism in which placeholder symbols and analogies let children build new concepts, such as integers, not expressible in their earlier conceptual system. This meaning comes from Carey (2004) in Daedalus.[1]

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References

Carey, S. (2004). Bootstrapping & the origin of concepts. Daedalus, 133(1), 59-68. https://doi.org/10.1162/001152604772746701

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