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

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: Case studies -- Anger -- Over -- There-constructions. // (Psychology)  Cognition.  Thought and thinking.  Reason.  Categorización (Psicología)  Conocimiento  Pensamiento y el pensar  Razón  Psycholinguistique.  Catégorisation (Psychologie)  Cognition.  Pensée.  Raison.  Identifier: Man; Cognition.