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From: harnad@mind.UUCP (Stevan Harnad)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.cog-eng
Subject: Re: The symbol grounding problem: "Fuzzy" categories?
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Date: Sun, 5-Jul-87 00:52:30 EDT
Article-I.D.: mind.974
Posted: Sun Jul  5 00:52:30 1987
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Organization: Cognitive Science, Princeton University
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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.
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