Maya Bar-Hillel Federmann Center for the Study of Rationality The Hebrew University, Safra Campus Towards a theory of default representations Rosch (1975) studied the cognitive representations of semantic categories. A chair is a prototypical representative of “furniture.” A 4-legged wooden chair with a back rest but no hand rests is a prototypical representative […]
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