Connecting the networks: how different things are related
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Word-association tests notoriously reveal that people have a tendency to say “dog” when the tester says “cat”, “low” when the tester says “high”, “potatoes” when the tester says “meat,” and “mother” or “son” when the tester says “father.” Yet the types of relation between these pairs of words are very different. Cats and dogs are both animals – members of the same category – just as meat and potatoes are both foods, and lions and tigers are both wild cats. Each pair is mutually exclusive, in the sense that no animal can be both a dog and a cat at the same time; if an animal is a cat, it is not a dog, and vice versa.
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Word-association tests notoriously reveal that people have a tendency to say “dog” when the tester says “cat”, “low” when the tester says “high”, “potatoes” when the tester says “meat,” and “mother” or “son” when the tester says “father.” Yet the types of relation between these pairs of words are very different. Cats and dogs are both animals – members of the same category – just as meat and potatoes are both foods, and lions and tigers are both wild cats. Each pair is mutually exclusive, in the sense that no animal can be both a dog and a cat at the same time; if an animal is a cat, it is not a dog, and vice versa.
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