Name Strategy: Its Existence and Implications

It is argued that colour name strategy, object name strategy, and chunking strategy in memory are all aspects of the same general phenomena, called stereotyping, and this in turn is an example of a know-how representation. Such representations are argued to have their origin in a principle called the minimum duplication of resources. For most the subsequent discussions existence of colour name strategy suffices. It is pointed out that the Berlin-Kay universal partial ordering of colours and the frequency of traffic accidents classified by colour are surprisingly similar; a detailed analysis is not carried out as the specific colours recorded are not identical. Some consequences of the existence of a name strategy for the philosophy of language and mathematics are discussed: specifically it is argued that in accounts of truth and meaning it is necessary throughout to use real numbers as opposed to bivalent quantities; and also that the concomitant label associated with sentences sho...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 1998
• Where: CORR
• Authors: Mark D. Roberts
• Keywords: Colour Name Strategy, CORR 1998, Education, Real Valued Quantities, Strategy