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From: harnad@mind.UUCP (Stevan Harnad)
Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng,comp.ai
Subject: Re: The symbol grounding problem: Against Rosch & Wittgenstein
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Date: Tue, 30-Jun-87 23:32:10 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 30 23:32:10 1987
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Organization: Cognitive Science, Princeton University
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Summary: Categorical performance requires a categorical basis in the input
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dgordon@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Dan Gordon)
of Teknowledge, Inc., Palo Alto CA writes:

>	There is no reliable, consensual all-or-none categorization performance
>	without a set of underlying features?  That sounds like a restatement of
>	the categorization theorist's credo rather than a thing that is so.

If not, what is the objective basis for the performance? And how would
you get a device to do it given the same inputs?
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