When useful folk categories, like “trees” and “fish”, don’t line up with evolutionary taxonomies… (opens in new tab)
When useful folk categories, like “trees” and “fish”, don’t line up with evolutionary taxonomies…From ‘Lo! An undetached collection of meaning parts’, the episode where we get enthusiastic about how we manage to understand each other when we’re learning new words.Listen to the full episode here.
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