Toward a Perceptual Model of Folk Biological Classification

@article{Hunn1976Perceptual, abstract = {The notion of taxonomic structure has played a central role in recent descriptions and analyses of folk systems of biological classification. The increasingly apparent inadequacies of that notion as a model of folk classification processes justify a fundamental theoretical reorientation. Reasonably interpretable and formally adequate definitions of inductive classification (Postulate I) and of dissimilarities in a classification space (Postulate II) are more adequate than the taxonomic model for understanding patterns observed in folk biological classification systems. A non-rigorous extension of this "perceptual model" deals with the key problem of taxonomic ranks.}, author = {Hunn, Eugene }, citeulike-article-id = {1378868}, journal = {American Ethnologist}, keywords = {category-learning-use, convention, \_d\_}, number = {3}, pages = {508--524}, posted-at = {2007-06-11 16:29:43}, priority = {2}, title = {Toward a Perceptual Model of Folk Biological Classification}, url = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/643769}, volume = {3}, year = {1976} }

TY - JOUR ID - Hunn1976Perceptual L3 - citeulike-article-id:1378868 TI - Toward a Perceptual Model of Folk Biological Classification JF - American Ethnologist VL - 3 IS - 3 SP - 508 EP - 524 N2 - The notion of taxonomic structure has played a central role in recent descriptions and analyses of folk systems of biological classification. The increasingly apparent inadequacies of that notion as a model of folk classification processes justify a fundamental theoretical reorientation. Reasonably interpretable and formally adequate definitions of inductive classification (Postulate I) and of dissimilarities in a classification space (Postulate II) are more adequate than the taxonomic model for understanding patterns observed in folk biological classification systems. A non-rigorous extension of this "perceptual model" deals with the key problem of taxonomic ranks. KW - category-learning-use KW - convention KW - _d_ AU - Hunn, Eugene PY - 1976/// UR - http://www.jstor.org/stable/643769 ER -