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/ ]