The concept of 'chair' has extreme variability; one can purchase books containing thousands of different kinds of chairs, and the variety is mind-boggling, making feature-based definitions of category membership inadequate for explaining how we recognize a chair.

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Speaker

Douglas Hofstadter

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there was an exhibit of chairs at the San Francisco International Airport...You can buy books of thousands of different kinds of chairs and the variety is is mind-boggling. [47:05]

Source

Analogy as the Core of CognitionStanford
Created: 8/12/2026, 6:12:22 PM

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