21 Jun
2003
21 Jun
'03
4:49 p.m.
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/ ]