Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind Nature_Gift_Guide and uncertainty with a fierce

and uncertainty with a fierce trust that joy is possible—and worth seeking

but will never make a mess on the carpet

risking his fledgling marriage along the way

is the reason Europeans set sail across the Atlantic

Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind Nature_Gift_Guide and uncertainty with a fierceThe groundbreaking work that Language journal said no linguist could afford to neglect In Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things, George M. Lakoff takes on the classical theory of categorization, which argues that the classes into which our minds and language group things and people are clearly defined and have strict boundaries. Lakoff argues instead that the mind and language build categories around protoypical examples, and that categories then radiate