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For someone to have \textit{core knowledge of a particular principle or fact} is for her to have a core system where either the core system includes a representation of that principle or else the principle plays a special role in describing the core system.
 
\subsection{Two-part definition}
 
‘Just as humans are endowed with multiple, specialized perceptual systems, so we are endowed with multiple systems for representing and reasoning about entities of different kinds.’ \citep[p.\ 517]{Carey:1996hl}
 
‘core systems are: \begin{enumerate} \item largely innate \item encapsulated \item unchanging \item arising from phylogenetically old systems \item built upon the output of innate perceptual analyzers’ \citep[p.\ 520]{Carey:1996hl} \end{enumerate}
 
\textit{Note} There are other, slightly different statements \citep[e.g.][]{carey:2009_origin}.
 
‘We hypothesize that uniquely human cognitive achievements build on systems that humans share with other animals: core systems that evolved before the emergence of our species. The internal functioning of these systems depends on principles and processes that are distinctly non-intuitive. Nevertheless, human intuitions about space, number, morality and other abstract concepts emerge from the use of symbols, especially language, to combine productively the representations that core systems deliver’ \citep[pp.\ 2784-5]{spelke:2012_core}.
 
\subsection{The Core Knowledge View}
 
The \emph{Core Knowledge View}: the principles of object perception are not knowledge, but they are core knowledge. And we generate expectations from these principles by a process of inference.
 

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