10 ideas
8983 | If 'red' is vague, then membership of the set of red things is vague, so there is no set of red things [Sainsbury] |
10496 | Monothetic categories have fixed defining features, and polythetic categories do not [Ellen] |
10497 | In symbolic classification, the categories are linked to rules [Ellen] |
8986 | We should abandon classifying by pigeon-holes, and classify around paradigms [Sainsbury] |
10495 | Continuous experience sometimes needs imposition of boundaries to create categories [Ellen] |
8982 | Vague concepts are concepts without boundaries [Sainsbury] |
8984 | If concepts are vague, people avoid boundaries, can't spot them, and don't want them [Sainsbury] |
8985 | Boundaryless concepts tend to come in pairs, such as child/adult, hot/cold [Sainsbury] |
10498 | Classification is no longer held to be rooted in social institutions [Ellen] |
7667 | There are two sides to men - the pleasantly social, and the violent and creative [Diderot, by Berlin] |