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Working Definition:
A prototype is the cognitive model of organisms or things that persons use to establish a continuum of good and bad examples in their understanding of a category.
Disciplinary Definitions:
See Lakoff, Women Fire and Dangerous Things.
See Ungerer & Schmid, "Prototypes and Categories," An introduction to cognitive linguistics, 1-59.
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