From newshub.ccs.yorku.ca!ists!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!psych.toronto.edu!christo Wed Apr 22 12:03:48 EDT 1992
Article 5125 of comp.ai.philosophy:
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Path: newshub.ccs.yorku.ca!ists!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!psych.toronto.edu!christo
>From: christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green)
Subject: Re: Categories: bounded or graded?
Organization: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
References: <1992Apr14.143822.10246@psych.toronto.edu> <1992Apr15.010721.17700@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
Message-ID: <1992Apr17.013159.14510@psych.toronto.edu>
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 01:31:59 GMT

In article <1992Apr15.010721.17700@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> bill@NSMA.AriZonA.EdU (Bill Skaggs) writes:
>
>  In my opinion the belief that natural categories are defined
>by invariant features leads to all kinds of nasty problems.  

No more nasty than those lead to by the idea that they're graded.
See Osherson & Smith.


-- 
Christopher D. Green                christo@psych.toronto.edu
Psychology Department               cgreen@lake.scar.utoronto.ca
University of Toronto
---------------------


