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| 3b45fdb | We categorize as we do because we have the brains and bodies we have and because we interact in the world as we do. | embodiment situated-cognition embodied-mind conceptualization limits | George Lakoff | |
| 915cc09 | Our categories arise from the fact that we are neural beings, from the nature of our bodily capacities, from our experience interacting in the world, and from our evolved capacity for basic-level categorization - a level at which we optimally interact with the world. Evolution has not required us to be as accurate above and below the basic level as at the basic level, and so we are not. | conceptualization human-knowledge limits-of-knowledge | George Lakoff |