| Connectionism is associationism Palaikantis argumentas1 #904 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. |