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It is well known that classical set theory is not expressive enough to adequately model categorization and prototype theory.
But the prototype theory has its own problems and limitations.
In the main part of the article, we propose a reformulation of classical prototype theory using the framework of monotonic and non-monotonic logics.
An interpretation of label semantics is then proposed which incorporates prototype theory by introducing uncertain thresholds on the distance between elements and prototypes for description labels.
The prototype theory does well in accounting for a variety of psychological phenomena and it helps to explain why definitions may be so hard to produce.
Using the prototype theory, this study aimed at finding the prototypes for fruits in Iranian and American societies.
A non-classical alternative that emerged in the 1970s is the prototype theory.
The theory theory is especially well-suited to explaining the sorts of reflective categorization judgments that proved to be difficult for the prototype theory.
The prototype theory is especially at home in dealing with the typicality effects that were left unexplained by the classical theory.
A different form of pluralism about conceptual structure doesn't employ atomic cores but simply says that the prototype, theory, etc. are all themselves concepts (Weiskopf 2009).
One standard strategy is to maintain that, on the prototype theory, categorization is to be understood as a similarity comparison process, where similarity is computed as a function of the number of constituents that two concepts hold in common.
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