{"pk":33141,"title":"Mutability and the Determinants of Conceptual Transformability","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Features differ in their mutability. For example, a robin could still be a robin even if it lacked a red breast; but it would probably not count as one if it lacked bones. One hypothesis to explain this differential transformability is that having bones is more critical to a biological theory than having a red breast is. W e reject this hypothesis in favor of a theory of mutability based solely on local dependency links and expressed in the form of an iterative equation. W e hypothesize that features are immutable to the extent other features depend on them and offer supporting data.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"17","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8h90j6sf","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Bradley","middle_name":"C.","last_name":"Love","name_suffix":"","institution":"Brown University","department":""},{"first_name":"Steven","middle_name":"A.","last_name":"Sloman","name_suffix":"","institution":"Brown University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1995-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/33141/galley/24202/download/"}]}