ClaimsGary Marcus

“18 years in the making - The Kindle edition of The Algebraic Mind: Integrating Connectionism and Cognitive Science is now available :)”

Gary Marcus, writing on X 9 January 2019 Post by @GaryMarcus on X, 2019-01-09 (X)

Factual Their own work or organisation

The Kindle edition of The Algebraic Mind: Integrating Connectionism and Cognitive Science is available as of 2019-01-09.

Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.

Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?

What would count as true or false

This is a factual claim judged as of 2019-01-09. It is true if a Kindle (Amazon e-book) edition of Marcus's 'The Algebraic Mind: Integrating Connectionism and Cognitive Science' (MIT Press, 2001) was available for purchase on or about 2019-01-09. Evidence could be an Amazon listing with a Kindle release date on or before about that date, or a publisher announcement. Mostly true: a Kindle edition was released within a few days of the post, or the listing date differs slightly. Mostly false: only a different e-book format was available then (not Kindle), or the Kindle edition appeared well after that date. False: no Kindle edition existed by that time, for example the Amazon listing shows a Kindle release date months or years later.

Set before the research began.

Evidence (2)

  1. E1 The Algebraic Mind by Gary F. Marcus: 9780262632683 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books Penguin Random House (PenguinRandomHouse.com)

    “Ebook Published on Jan 01, 2019 | 242 Pages”

  2. E2 The Algebraic Mind: Integrating Connectionism and Cognitive Science (Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change): Marcus, Gary F.: 9780262632683: Amazon.com: Books Amazon.com

    “Publication date : January 24, 2003”

Reasoning

A Penguin Random House listing shows an ebook edition of The Algebraic Mind published Jan 01, 2019, consistent in timing with the 2019-01-09 post, but it does not identify the format as Kindle (E1). The fetched Amazon listing shows only the 2003 print publication date and no Kindle edition details (E2), which is absence of evidence rather than proof that no Kindle edition existed. Since the criteria turn specifically on a Kindle edition, the evidence does not settle the claim.

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Gary Marcus, “The Kindle edition of The Algebraic Mind: Integrating Connectionism and Cognitive Science is available as of 2019-01-09.” (said 9 January 2019). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_d99577bf083d, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_d99577bf083d

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