ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the "rudiments" of a potentially powerful and internally consistent deterministic partial theory of structural learning. It suggests three different partial theories, each of which must be tested in a different way. First, there is a theory of structured knowledge. This theory deals with the problem of how to characterize knowledge. Second, there is a theory of idealized behavior which tells how knowledge is selected for use, and how it is learned. This theory applies only where the subject is unencumbered by memory or by his finite capacity to process information. The third theory is still more general and tells what happens when memory and information processing capacity are taken into account. These three theories are not independent of one another, although research on any one can progress independently of the others and this includes empirical testing.
