Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!princeton!mind!harnad From: harnad@mind.UUCP (Stevan Harnad) Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.cog-eng Subject: Re: The symbol grounding problem: "Fuzzy" categories? Message-ID: <974@mind.UUCP> Date: Sun, 5-Jul-87 00:52:30 EDT Article-I.D.: mind.974 Posted: Sun Jul 5 00:52:30 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 5-Jul-87 03:54:35 EDT References: <764@mind.UUCP> <768@mind.UUCP> <770@mind.UUCP> <6174@diamond.BBN.COM> <454@sol.ARPA> Organization: Cognitive Science, Princeton University Lines: 15 Summary: Most object categories are all-or-none Xref: mnetor comp.ai:622 comp.cog-eng:186 In Article 185 of comp.cog-eng sher@rochester.arpa (David Sher) of U of Rochester, CS Dept, Rochester, NY responded as follows to my claim that "Most of our object categories are indeed all-or-none, not graded. A penguin is not a bird as a matter of degree. It's a bird, period." -- > Personally I have trouble imagining how to test such a claim... Try sampling concrete nouns in a dictionary. -- Stevan Harnad (609) - 921 7771 {bellcore, psuvax1, seismo, rutgers, packard} !princeton!mind!harnad harnad%mind@princeton.csnet harnad@mind.Princeton.EDU