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

University of Chicago Press, 1987. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

University of Chicago Press, 1987. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

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

UsedVeryGood. Binding is unblemished, text block is clean, boards straight, without highlights or markings. Mild rubbing to dust wrapper edges. Very clean, nearly like new. Well packaged and promptly shipped from California. Partnered with Friends of the Library since 2010.

University of Chicago Press, 1987-05. Hardcover. Good.

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.

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./very good(+). 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 -- Overview -- Book II:… Read More

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