Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind by Lakoff, George - 1987

University of Chicago Press, 1987 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 614 pages, references, indices. Light shelf wear..

University of Chicago Press, 1987. *Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Tuesday, May 28 (holiday sale)* First edition, first printing, 624 pp., Hardcover, fine in an edge-rubbed dust jacket. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. Hardcover. pp. xvii, 614. 8vo. Light shelfwear, ink name to front pastedown, a few pencil ticks; very good- in lightly edgeworn, very good- dustjacket with a few short closed tears to edges.

Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1987. xvii, 614p., dj.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. First edition, first printing (lowest year in date line matches copyright date.). Hardcover. About fine (binding a wee bit cocked) in a very good(+) jacket. Please see photos. Jacket now housed in archival mylar. in very good(+) dust-jacket. Large Octavo in pink & white DJ; xvii, 614 p.; 27 cm.; includes indexes & bibliography: p. 589-600. Contents: The mind beyond the machine -- Importance of categorization -- From Wittgenstein to Rosch -- Prototype effects in language -- Idealized cognitive models -- Metonymic models -- Radial categories -- Features, stereotypes, and defaults -- More about cognitive models -- Defenders of the classical view -- Review -- The objectivist paradigm -- What's wrong with objectivist metaphysics -- What's wrong with ojbectivist cognition -- The formalist enterprise -- Putnam's theorem -- A new realism -- Cognitive semantics -- Whorf and relativism -- The mind-as-machine paradigm -- Mathematics as a cognitive activity --… Read More

University of Chicago Press, 1987-01-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!