Hi Ricardo--
Thanks for useful reference. Do you know if Murphy & Medin's paper available
in English?
Eugene
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ricardo Ottoni [mailto:rjapias@attglobal.net]
> Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2000 5:03 PM
> To: ematusov@UDel.Edu
> Subject: Re: Prototypical defining middle class
>
>
> Eugene Matusov wrote:
> >
> > The pattern that emerges from this prototypical defining middle class is
> > that it is multifaceted: a person can belong to middle class in one
> > sense/sphere/context/time-moment and not in another.
> > Eugene,
> I read that, aside prototypical and classical(Aristotelian)conceptions,
> there is a third way of understanding concepts:
>
> The theorical conception
> (Murphy & Medin's THE ROLE OF THEORIES IN CONCEPTUAL COHERENCE apud
> OLIVEIRA, Marcos in OLIVEIRA, M.K. & OLIVEIRA, M.B. INVESTIGAÇÕES
> COGNITIVAS; CONCEITOS, LINGUAGEM E CULTURA - Cognitive Investigations:
> Concepts, Language and Culture)
>
> According to Marcos Oliveira, this Murphy&Medin's conception focus on
> concepts' contexts of use or, in other words, they are understood within
> a net/theory lato sensu.
> Then, any definition is originated since the idea of its meaning and
> sense and coherence in a specific context - Theory or net.
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