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Our perception of the world shaped by cognitive categories, study finds.

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Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind
Terence Odlin, George Lakoff

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The article explores how our cognitive knowledge is formed, focusing on how we categorize our perceptions of things. It discusses how our everyday language reflects these categories, such as describing desires as battles or games. The main goal is to understand how our minds organize information, with George Lakoff classifying the ways we form these perceptions. The key finding is that our everyday language mirrors the categories we use to perceive the world around us.