Azamat and Jeff, (01)
Both of you agree that categorization is essential. The difference
is that Jeff says its fundamental, and Azamat says its higher. (02)
I would not attempt to distinguish higher and lower mental functions
without a great deal of psychological and neurological evidence. (03)
But I would say that classification is so widely used in everything
from recognition to reasoning that it would be hard to find anything
more primitive. (04)
Following is an article that I wrote about categorization from
the point of view of logic, philosophy, and AI: (05)
http://www.jfsowa.com/pubs/cogcat.htm (06)
And following are some slides in which I begin with a survey
of various cognitive functions involved in language: (07)
http://www.jfsowa.com/talks/situ.pdf (08)
John (09)
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