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Cognition and Language
Categories and Concepts
By Gregory Murphy
People form mental concepts of categories of objects, which permit them to respond appropriately to new objects they encounter. Most concepts cannot be strictly defined but are organized around the “best” examples or prototypes, which have th…
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