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Article 4816 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: gowj@novavax.UUCP (James Gow)
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Subject: Re: Language as Technology: A Phenomenological Study
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Date: 30 Mar 92 02:54:22 GMT
References: <1992Mar26.223702.28641@a.cs.okstate.edu> <1992Mar27.002606.32145@mp.cs.niu.edu> <1992Mar27.224344.7150@waikato.ac.nz> <1992Mar27.154137.6740@mp.cs.niu.edu> <1992Mar28.140324.7155@waikato.ac.nz>
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In article <1992Mar28.140324.7155@waikato.ac.nz> rmarsh@waikato.ac.nz writes:
>In article <1992Mar27.154137.6740@mp.cs.niu.edu>, rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu 
>(Neil Rickert) writes:
>> 
>>  You use language for much more than communication.  You use it to construct
>> models.  It is these mental models which are essential to knowledge
>> acquisition.  No doubt mental models are possible without language, but they
>> would be much simpler than the models we construct with language.
>> 
Does anyone have any references for mental models?

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