our brains know that a traffic cone and a pumpkin have different purposes—and thus the two objects aren’t connected schematically by function. But traffic cones and pumpkins do share a different trait: they’re both orange. This means that they’re schematically linked by color, both to each other and to other orange things, such as tangerines. As this example demonstrates, every piece of information can exist in multiple schemas at once. Tangerines are linked to the schema for the color orange (and thus share a connection with a traffic cone) and the schema for citrus fruit (thus sharing a
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