Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind; Chicago
by Lakoff, George
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- Hardcover
- first
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- About fine (binding a wee bit cocked) in a very good(+) jacket. Please see photos. Jacket now housed in archival mylar./very good(+)
- ISBN 10
- 0226468038
- ISBN 13
- 9780226468037
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About This Item
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. First edition, first printing (lowest year in date line matches copyright date.). Hardcover. About fine (binding a wee bit cocked) in a very good(+) jacket. Please see photos. Jacket now housed in archival mylar./very good(+). Large Octavo in pink & white DJ; xvii, 614 p. ; 27 cm.; includes indexes & bibliography: p. 589-600. Contents: The mind beyond the machine -- Importance of categorization -- From Wittgenstein to Rosch -- Prototype effects in language -- Idealized cognitive models -- Metonymic models -- Radial categories -- Features, stereotypes, and defaults -- More about cognitive models -- Defenders of the classical view -- Review -- The objectivist paradigm -- What's wrong with objectivist metaphysics -- What's wrong with ojbectivist cognition -- The formalist enterprise -- Putnam's theorem -- A new realism -- Cognitive semantics -- Whorf and relativism -- The mind-as-machine paradigm -- Mathematics as a cognitive activity -- Overview -- Book II: Case studies -- Anger -- Over -- There-constructions. // (Psychology) Cognition. Thought and thinking. Reason. Categorización (PsicologÃa) Conocimiento Pensamiento y el pensar Razón Psycholinguistique. Catégorisation (Psychologie) Cognition. Pensée. Raison. Identifier: Man; Cognition.
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- Title
- Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind; Chicago
- Author
- Lakoff, George
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- About fine (binding a wee bit cocked) in a very good(+) jacket. Please see photos. Jacket now housed in archival mylar.
- Jacket Condition
- very good(+)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, first printing (lowest year in date line matches
- ISBN 10
- 0226468038
- ISBN 13
- 9780226468037
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1987
- Bookseller catalogs
- Sciences; Politics and Social Sciences;
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