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Peter Gärdenfors

“Human categorizations are based on how we represent things mentally, not on what ultimate physical properties they have. Hence, even if there were real essences in the world, they could not be allowed in theory.”

peter gärdenfors, Conceptual Spaces: The Geometry of Thought
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Conceptual Spaces: The Geometry of Thought (Bradford Books) Conceptual Spaces: The Geometry of Thought by Peter Gärdenfors
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