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Salvaging parts of the “classical theory” of categorization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Dan Sperber
Dan Sperber
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Laboratorie d'ethnologie, C.N.R.S. and Université de Paris X, 9200 Nanterre, France1
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 9 , Issue 4 , December 1986 , pp. 668
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