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Douglas R. Hofstadter

“We claim that cognition takes place thanks to a constant flow of categorizations, and that at the base of it all is found, in contrast to classification (which aims to put all things into fixed and rigid mental boxes), the phenomenon of categorization through analogy-making, which endows human thinking with its remarkable fluidity.”

Douglas R. Hofstadter, Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking
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