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work_jswzt3nkjfhrle3o37durw6cai	Susan Carey	Science and Core Knowledge	1996	21	.pdf	application/pdf	9458	636	54	While endorsing Gopnik's proposal that studies of the emergence and modification of scientific theories and studies of cognitive development in children are mutually illuminating, we offer a different picture of the beginning points of cognitive development from Gopnik's picture of "theories all the way down." Human children's initial cognitive endowment consists of a set of innate core systems of knowledge which have some, but not all, of the properties of later Further, young infants' knowledge structures differ from later developing intuitive theories and scientific theories In contrast, all the evidence currently available suggests that the four core cognitive systems found in human infants seeking lessons about theory change in science from case studies of cognitive development should not look here. development in children and in science in several well studied cases, although the cases we find convincing occur later in childhood than Gopnik's examples: intuitive biology in the years 4 to 10 (Carey 1985, 1988, 	./cache/work_jswzt3nkjfhrle3o37durw6cai.pdf	./txt/work_jswzt3nkjfhrle3o37durw6cai.txt