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>Of course the article sure didn't delve into these latter
>possibilities. But if you want to rattle some apparently stubborn
>minds, you could try an experiment like the above for your friends,
>then show them a different way to arrange items along functional, or
>spatial, or even temporal associations, to illustrate their own
>preconception of arrangement by linguistic based associational
>categories like potato goes with celery as `vegtable', isn't the only
>way to creat an associative mapping.
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The measurement thing is just a diversion. What they're really after is to destroy your imagination by insisting that there is a "right" associative mapping.
And they mostly succeed,
Joanna
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