Concepts do more than categorize.

摘要: Concepts underlie all higher-level cognitive processes. Until recently, the study of concepts has largely been categorization. But categorization is only one conceptual function among several. We argue that cannot be understood sufficiently through categorization, or any other function, in isolation, for two important reasons. First, serve multiple functions which interact to affect structure and processing. Second, studying a single isolation encourages see processes are particular each but discourages discovery common functions. For these reasons, we suggest should instead studied context system interrelated