John, (01)
Thanks for the two links. (02)
You are right: Azamat and I are of opposite positions, but are spiraling toward
each other. (03)
-- Jeff (04)
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Azamat and Jeff, (06)
Both of you agree that categorization is essential. The difference is that
Jeff says its fundamental, and Azamat says its higher. (07)
I would not attempt to distinguish higher and lower mental functions without a
great deal of psychological and neurological evidence. (08)
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. (09)
Following is an article that I wrote about categorization from the point of
view of logic, philosophy, and AI: (010)
http://www.jfsowa.com/pubs/cogcat.htm (011)
And following are some slides in which I begin with a survey of various
cognitive functions involved in language: (012)
http://www.jfsowa.com/talks/situ.pdf (013)
John (014)
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