How Episodic Is Semantic Memory?

At the end of his Philosophical Investigations Wittgenstein (1963) notes that the confusion and barrennes of psychology is to be explained not by the youth of the science but by the conceptual confusions that underlie it. I think one could easily make a case for saying that questions concerning the distinction proposed by Tulving (1972) between episodic and semantic memory generally involve precisely such conceptual confusions. What I propose to do in this paper is first to illustrate such a confusion, and then to suggest a possible way round it.

• Publication year

  1975

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  Theoretical Issues In Natural Language Processing

• Publication date

  1975-06-10

• Fields of study

  Philosophy, Computer Science, Psychology

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  DOI 10.3115/980190.980210
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