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[catalogued under 7. Existence / E. Categories / 2. Categorisation]

Full Idea

Are categorisation under time pressure and categorisation without time pressure ...two different cognitive competences?

Gist of Idea

Are quick and slow categorisation the same process, or quite different?

Source

Edouard Machery (Doing Without Concepts [2009], 5.1.1)

Book Reference

Machery,Edouard: 'Doing Without Concepts' [OUP 2009], p.122


A Reaction

This is a psychologist's question. Introspectively, they do seem to be rather different, as there is no time for theorising and explaining when you are just casting your eyes over the landscape.