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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