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Connectionism is associationism

Processing units in a connectionist network are connected by associative links. Associationist theories can't account for systematicity and related phenomena: symbolic AI can via structured representations and structure sensitive thought processes.

Jerry Fodor & Zenon Pylyshyn (1988).

Note: Additional associationism arguments are are identified as unmapped territory on Horn's map.
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