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From: lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Greg Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,talk.philosophy.misc,sci.lang
Subject: Re: Categorization
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Date: 13 Jan 89 16:35:52 GMT
References: <Jan.12.10.43.56.1989.23428@elbereth.rutgers.edu>
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From article <Jan.12.10.43.56.1989.23428@elbereth.rutgers.edu>, by harnad@elbereth.rutgers.edu (Stevan Harnad):
" ...
""C" referred to how the category was represented in the head. ...

Ah.  Here's the problem.  We have to assume Harnad is right to
understand what he's saying.  He proposes that all-or-none categories
are in people's heads and that typicality judgements are made with
reference to these.  *If* that's so, then typicality judgements
obviously presuppose all-or-none categories.  (Someone on the other side
of the fence would naturally take the view that all-or-none judgements
presuppose graded categories.)

We thought he was defending his theory when he was actually just
reiterating it.

		Greg, lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu