In discussing Jerry Fodor, Fiona Cowie uses the term "innatism" in a sense that doesn't seem to imply anything about the modularity of special faculties, although in the earlier section she had concluded that this was what the CLASSICAL controversy over innatism was really about. And this is so despite the fact that the title of Fodor's 1983 book was in fact THE MODULARITY OF MIND. In discussing Fodor, Cowie uses innate simply to mean the opposite of learned. Whatever we mean when we say we have learned a concept, we simply negate that which we mean when we claim that it is innate. She explains that, in this sense, Fodor believed that most concepts are innate. A very few concepts are compound, and THEY must logically be learned. We must know how to use the word "man" and the word "unmarried" properly, and then we may learn to combine those meanings into that of a new word, "bachelor." But at some point (Fodor and Cowie both take thi...
