ESSAY #2 for INF5020, AUTUMN 2004

NOTE that this essay counts for 20% of your final grade in this course!

?         DUE: Friday 22nd October 2004, before 16:00 hrs.

?         GOAL: Understand and discuss concepts of reality, objectivity, subjectivity, meaning and (especially) communicating meaning from the point of view of classical categorization theory versus Roschian categorization theory (i.e., typicality).

?         Focus on the consequences of the two attitudes (i.e., classical vs. Roschian attitudes) upon our conceptualization of reality, objectivity, subjectivity, and upon the act of communicating meaning (or ?informing?).

?         TITLE: ?Do We have a Sufficiently Common Understanding of Reality for Sound Communication??