Few things are more central to thought than categorization. As Lakoff says: Every time we see something as a kind of thing, for example, a tree, we are categorizing. Whenever we reason about kinds of things---chairs, nations, illnesses, emotions, any kind of thing at all--we are employing categorie
Logicians, language, and george Lakoff
β Scribed by Alan Reeves
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Year
- 1977
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 703 KB
- Volume
- 1
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0165-0157
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