The following is a taxonomy of the animal kingdom. It has been attributed to an ancient
Chinese encyclopedia entitled the Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge: On those …

A science-writer popularizing cognitive psychology in the NY Times Sunday Magazine
recently said," We human beings... are concept-making creatures: Unlike any other animal …

Categorization, the basic cognitive process of arranging objects into categories, is a
fundamental process in human and machine intelligence and is central to investigations and …

The problem of'classification'is a general problem of life. Biology has shown that
classification abilities are necessal)'for the survival of every organism. Human beings …

We are forever trying to carve nature at its joints, dividing it into categories so that we can
make sense of the world. If we see a particular child pet a particular dog at a particular time …

Even informal observation of everyday categorization reveals that many objects fit into a
number of categories. A single object might be called a wire-haired terrier, terrier, dog …

Originally published in 1978, the papers in this book derive from a 1976 meeting sponsored
by the Social Science Research Council to discuss the nature and principles of category …

Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on the general taxonomy of category types, which
is specifically directed toward the dichotomy of categories into ill-defined and well-defined …

Projecting the image of ourselves into things or functions of things in the outside world is
quite a common practice. I shall call this projection “anthropomorphization.” Since each of us …

Categorizations which humans make of the concrete world are not arbitrary but highly
determined. In taxonomies of concrete objects, there is one level of abstraction at which the …