17.113 Harnad, "Cognition is Categorization"

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                   Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 17, No. 113.
           Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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             Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 09:18:32 +0100
             From: Stevan Harnad <harnad@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
             Subject: Cognition is Categorization

          To be presented at UQaM Cognitive Science Summer Institute
          on CATEGORISATION, Montreal June 30-July 11, 2003
          http://www.unites.uqam.ca/sccog/liens/program.html

                  COGNITION IS CATEGORIZATION
                      Stevan Harnad

          SUMMARY: All of our categories consist in ways we behave differently
          toward different kinds of things, whether it be the things we do or
          don't, eat, mate with, or flee from, or the things that we describe,
          through our language, as prime numbers, affordances, or absolute
          discriminables. That is also all that cognition is for -- and about.
          [Full text: http://cogprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/archive/00003027/ ]

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