[Bible] Episode 240: Dan McClellan - Why God Is Like a Hotdog
The Bible For Normal People
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Cognitive Linguistics: A Framework for Organizing Categories
When we use definitions, we are trying to reduce categories down to the shortest list of necessary and sufficient features. And I got a bit into cognitive linguistics because I found some ideas that helped me make sense of this. The person like the categories that we use is not firmly bounded. It's something with fuzzy boundaries and there can be overlap and integration. We treat personhood the same way kind of intuitively when we're not really thinking hard about why we do it.
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