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Fishing with the wrong nets: How the implicit slips through the representational theory of mind: Open peer commentary to Dienes & Perner

par Jiménez, Luis;Cleeremans, Axel
Référence Behavioral and brain sciences, 22, page (771)
Publication Publié, 1999

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Dienes and Perner's target article is not a satisfactory theory of implicit knowledge because in endorsing the representational theory of knowledge, the authors also inadvertently accept that only explicit knowledge can be causally efficacious, and hence that implicit knowledge is an inert category. This conflation between causal efficacy, knowledge, and explicitness is made clear through the authors' strategy, which consists of attributing any observable effect to the existenee of representations that are as minimally explicit as needed to account for behavior. In contrast, we believe that causally efficacious and fully implicit knowledge exists, and is best embodied in frameworks that depart radically from classical assumptions.