Women, fire, and dangerous things: George Lakoff, (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 1987); 614 pages, $29.95

✍ Scribed by Daniel S. Weld

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1988
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 244 KB
• Volume: 35
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0004-3702
• DOI: 10.1016/0004-3702(88)90035-5

✦ Synopsis

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 categories. (p.