Xref: utzoo comp.ai:3069 talk.philosophy.misc:1820 sci.lang:3913 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!mailrus!ukma!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!utastro!bill From: bill@utastro.UUCP (William H. Jefferys) Newsgroups: comp.ai,talk.philosophy.misc,sci.lang Subject: Re: Categorization Message-ID: <3526@utastro.UUCP> Date: 12 Jan 89 15:38:04 GMT References: <2980@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> <24080@cornell.UUCP> Reply-To: bill@astro.UUCP (William H. Jefferys) Organization: UT AUSTIN Astronomy Department/McDonald Observatory Lines: 15 In article <24080@cornell.UUCP> turney@svax.cs.cornell.edu (Jenn Turney) writes: # #Suppose you encounter a new creature in the wild which has wings and feathers, #flies, and has a trunk. You don't know whether it's a bird or not #but if you were asked to rate its typicality of the category "bird", it's #very likely that you would give a non-zero rating. Opus has wings, feathers and a trunk. But he doesn't fly :-) Bill Jefferys -- Glend. I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hot. Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them? -- Henry IV Pt. I, III, i, 53