Is Philadelphia North of Rome or South of Rome?

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People think that an ordinary building say Jacques's house is closer to a landmark Eiffel Tower. That violates any metric assumption and it seems to me because the Eiffer Tower defines a neighborhood, you might say I live near the Eiffle Tower but unless somebody knew Jacques you wouldn't say I livenear Jacques's house. So ordinary things are drawn into the space of a neighborhood of a landmark and that defies any metric representation.

My guest today is acclaimed psychologist and longtime Stanford University professor Barbara Tversky who calls on her nearly 50 years in the field of cognitive psychology for an in-depth discussion about how our minds work.

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