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At the end of the last chapter we saw that the creation of similarity points to a more fundamental cognitive phenomenon, namely that of the creation of attributes of an object, event or situation. This phenomenon has sprouted a certain view of cognition that is becoming increasingly prominent. I refer to it as the interaction view of cognition. According to this view, our concepts do not reflect some pre-existing structure in the environment, they create the structure. Yet, this conceptual organization cannot be arbitrary, and is somehow constrained by reality.
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Indurkhya, B. (1992). Cognition as Interaction. In: Metaphor and Cognition. Studies in Cognitive Systems, vol 13. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2252-0_5
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