Infants’ Metaphysics: The Case of Numerical Identity

1996/04/01 by Fei Xu, Susan Carey · 954 citations
Mathematics · Psychology · #Artificial intelligence #Child and Animal Learning Development #Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills #Cognitive psychology #Cognitive science #Computer science #Construct (python library) #Epistemology #Identity (music) #Individuation #Language Development and Disorders #Linguistics #Object (grammar) #Property (philosophy) #Psychoanalysis #Psychology #TRACE (psycholinguistics)

paper · doi:10.1006/cogp.1996.0005

published in Cognitive Psychology 30(2), 111-153 (Elsevier BV)

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