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" The aim of the present research is to show that the world does contain "intrinsically separate things." The world is structured because real-world attributes do not occur independently of each other. Creatures with feathers are more likely also to have... "
The Big Book of Concepts - Page 123
by Gregory Murphy - 2004 - 568 pages
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Thinking: Readings in Cognitive Science

P. N. Johnson-Laird, P. C. Wason - Psychology - 1977 - 636 pages
...attributes, unlike the sets often presented laboratory subjects, do not occur independently of one another. Creatures with feathers are more likely also to have...sit-on-able-ness than objects with the appearance of cats. In the second place, the objects of the world are determinately structured because levels of abstraction...
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Learning Through Interaction: Volume 1: The Study of Language Development

C. Gordon Wells, Gordon Wells - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1981 - 318 pages
...unlike the sets often presented to laboratory subjects, do not occur independently of one another. Creatures with feathers are more likely also to have...sit-on-able-ness than objects with the appearance of cats.' (Rosch, 1977: 213) Thus, prototype codings of categories will tend to occur at the level of abstraction...
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The Development of Cognitive Anthropology

Roy G. D'Andrade - Psychology - 1995 - 290 pages
...than with fur. And ... it is a fact of the perceived world that objects with the perceptual attributes of chairs are more likely to have functional sit-on-ableness than objects with the appearance of cats. In short, combinations of what we perceive as the attributes of real objects do not occur uniformly....
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Foundations of Cognitive Psychology: Core Readings

Daniel J. Levitin - Cognition - 2002 - 884 pages
...programs for sitting, it is a fact of the perceived world that objects with the perceptual attributes of chairs are more likely to have functional sit-on-able-ness than objects with the appearance of cats. In short, combinations of what we perceive as the attributes of real objects do not occur uniformly....
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Cognitive Psychology: Key Readings

D. A. Balota, Elizabeth J. Marsh - Cognition - 2004 - 784 pages
...things." The world is structured because real-world attributes do not occur independently of each other. Creatures with feathers are more likely also to have...sit-on-ableness than objects with the appearance of cats. That is, combinations of attributes of real objects do not occur uniformly. Some pairs, triples, or...
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