For example, a standard prototype structure would capture prototypical cats and exclude the highly unusual, atypical cats that a theory structure would cover, and consequently the two concepts would refer to distinct (though related) categories.
It is thus plausible to assume that the mental representations of category words are somehow closer to good examples than to bad examples of the category: a robin is perceived as a more "birdish" bird than an ostrich or, as people would say, closer to the prototype of a bird or to the prototypical bird (see the entry on concepts).
And even if two people have a cat-concept with the same general type of structure (e.g., prototype structure), the concepts might still be rather different (treating prototypical cats as having rather different sorts of properties).
The researchers expect their prototypical robotic roots to be able to penetrate up to a metre of real soil.The direction of growth is controlled by a material known as an electro-rheological fluid, which is also stored in the cone.
The firm encourages customers to offer advice.Office Depot, a business-supplies chain, has built a "planogram lab"—a prototypical store near its headquarters in south Florida.
A 53-year-old of prototypical Soviet-bureaucrat appearance, Mr Fradkov was Russia's envoy to the European Union.
Mr Summers is the prototypical alpha male and, as you noted, he would be "less predictable" and more likely "to unsettle the markets with unscripted comments".
Three people were hospitalised, but no one was killed and all passengers were successfully evacuated.This is as close to a prototypical airline accident as you can get.
So if this prototypical example of Eurosclerosis actually outperforms America on a per-hour output basis, that's quite something.
But he wonders if he should not have made him out to be more actively wicked.Viewers of this lushly made film may at first find Liv Tyler miscast as Tatyana, a passionate and prototypical heroine of Russian literature, because her robust, steak-fed physique brings Texas to mind more than early 19th-century Russia.
Its dexterity in juggling with Latin, Byzantine and Muslim elements makes it a prototypical Byzantine object.But then the Byzantine illustrated book has the answer to everything from the latest thing in siege-engines to the best way to survive a snake-bite.
