Johannes von Kries on Cognition In Gerhard Wagner (ed.)The Range of Science: Studies on the interdisciplinary legacy of Johannes von Kries, Vol. 19, Chapter III, pp. 65-77. Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz 2019
Abstract
Von Kries's peculiar views on probability rest on insights that make him a forerunner of the "connectionist revolution" that swept Cognitive Science in the 1980s. In this chapter I illustrate von Kries's "synchytic judgements" along with the late Wittgenstein's concept of "family resemblance" for the meaning of words, and compare them with the understanding of mental categories brought about by connectionism.