This classical view of concepts assumes that their corresponding categories have firm boundaries. Instances of the category “Bee” are never in the category “Bird.” Also in this view, every instance is an equivalently good representative of the category. Any bee is representative, so it goes, because all bees have something in common, either the way they look or what they do, or an underlying fingerprint that makes them bees. Any variation from bee to bee is considered irrelevant to the fact that they are bees. You might notice a parallel here to the classical view of emotion, in which every
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