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    "pk": 27818,
    "title": "These boots are made for walking: Teleogical generalizations from principled connections",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Certain generalizations are teleological, e.g., forks are foreating. But not all properties relevant to a particular conceptpermit teleological generalization. For instance, forks getwashed roughly as often as they’re used for eating, yet thegeneralization, forks are for washing, might strike reasoners asunacceptable. What explains the discrepancy? A recenttaxonomic theory of conceptual generalization (Prasada, 2017;Prasada & Dillingham, 2006; Prasada et al., 2013) argues thatcertain kinds of conceptual connections – known as“principled” connections – license generalizations, whereasassociative, “statistical” connections license only probabilisticexpectations. We apply this taxonomy to explain teleologicalgeneralization: it predicts that acceptable teleologicalgeneralizations concern concept-property pairs in which theconcept bears a principled connection to a property. Under thisanalysis, the concept fork bears a principled connection toeating and a statistical connection to washing. Twoexperiments and a regression analysis tested and corroboratedthe predictions of the theory.",
    "language": "eng",
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        "short_name": "",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Teleogical generalization"
        },
        {
            "word": "generics"
        },
        {
            "word": "principled connections"
        },
        {
            "word": "statistical connections"
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    ],
    "section": "Publication-based-Talks",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4nq120cj",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Joanna",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Korman",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "US Naval Research Laboratory",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Sangeet",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Khemlani",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "US Naval Research Laboratory",
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        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2018-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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