Emerging Ideas About Categories
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The study of human categorization is contentious because it matters. How we understand the processes that give rise to categories is at the very core of how we understand human cognition. Over the past several decades, there has been growing concern that the assumptions that define and distinguish competing theories may notbe quite right. These assumptions are based on the traditional metaphor that views categories as discrete, bounded things that are stable over time and context. In this view, categories are enduringly real, object-like, truly out there in the world and also in our heads. Thus, theorists in this tradition write about categories being acquired, discouered, and possessed.. The boundedness and stability expected of categories is well exemplified in the following quote from Keil (1994):
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