One important property of human object categories is that they define the sets of exemplars to which newly observed properties are generalized. We manipulated the causal knowledge associated with novel categories and assessed the resulting strength of property inductions. We found that the theoretical coherence afforded to a category by inter-feature causal relationships strengthened inductive ...

Abstract Occurrences of sentences that are traditionally considered category mistakes, such as ‘The red number is divisible by three’, tend to elicit a sense oddness in assessors. In attempting explain this oddness, existing accounts the philosophical literature commonly claim occurrences associated with defect or phenomenology unique class mistakes. It might be thought recent work experimental...