Prototypes
Ken Dickey
kend at apple.com
Wed Mar 4 17:26:32 UTC 1998
>But speaking of common sense; People don't think in terms of classes.
>There's been some psychological research into how people catagorize things
>...
>Lakoff's _Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things_ (recommended by David Ungar)
>is an good book on the subject.
By the way, _Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things_ is good but fairly heavy
reading. I would recommend George Lakoff's _Metaphors we Live By_ as a
starting point. [_More than Cool Reason_ is a good follow on to this].
Cheers,
-Ken
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