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| Categories | Pinker | I 381 Categories/PinkerVsTradition: Urge to classify not because the memory is limited. Tradition: without order chaos would reign. >Classification, >Order, >Memory, >Information processing. PinkerVs: Organization is pointless for its own sake. Solution: Only with categories it is possible to draw conclusions (inferences) - most categories are in the middle: E.g. "rabbit", not "cottontail" or "mammal". I 386 George Lakoff (linguist) VsCategories: there are no clear, pure fictions, they must be abolished - PinkerVsLakoff: rules are just idealizations. >George Lakoff. I 386 Categories/Gould: it is a mistake, to force extinct animals into categories. Pinker: difficult is the classification on the stump where a branch was cut off. >Idealization. I 402f Categories/Folk Psychology/Pinker: Vs is assumed to be essentialist: taxonomies all over the world look similar to the tree structure of Linné. >Structures, >Classification. I 404 But there is no age in which children are essentialists with respect to artifacts: E.g. a coffeepot turned into a birdhouse is referred to by everyone as a birdhouse. >Artifacts, >Essentialism, >Folk psychology. |
Pi I St. Pinker How the Mind Works, New York 1997 German Edition: Wie das Denken im Kopf entsteht München 1998 |
| Classification | Pinker | I 381 Categories/PinkerVsTradition: Urge to classify not because the memory is limited. Tradition: without order chaos would reign. >Classification, >Order, >Memory, >Information processing. PinkerVs: Organization is pointless for its own sake. Solution: Only with categories it is possible to draw conclusions (inferences) - most categories are in the middle: E.g. "rabbit", not "cottontail" or "mammal". I 386 George Lakoff (linguist) VsCategories: there are no clear, pure fictions, they must be abolished - PinkerVsLakoff: rules are just idealizations. >George Lakoff. I 386 Categories/Gould: it is a mistake, to force extinct animals into categories. Pinker: difficult is the classification on the stump where a branch was cut off. >Idealization. |
Pi I St. Pinker How the Mind Works, New York 1997 German Edition: Wie das Denken im Kopf entsteht München 1998 |
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