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Several arguments are made in this paper: (1) Taxonomic tree models of folk classification are implicitly generative because they produce appropriate statements which are not in the description itself. (2) The generative devices sometimes postulated—namely, transitive reasoning operating on chains of directly included taxa—do not account for some evidence which another model, the direct comparison between prototypic images, does. (3) Taxonomic trees are probably not stored directly in the memory except perhaps as 'dwarf' trees consisting of contrast sets and their names. (4) Routine classification behavior is not so much a matter of producing giant taxonomic trees as it is a matter of selecting, in particular socioeconomic situations, a characteristic of an organism relevant for action.

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