https://doi.org/10.31648/hip.537
The purpose of this paper is to analyse the basic philosophical principles of the most important categorisation model used in cognitive science, also know as prototype theory. I focused mostly on two basic assumptions of prototype theory, i. e. Wittgensteins’s hypothesis of family resemblance, and the theory of central-peripheral structure of category. My analysis is preceded by the introduction to the most fundamental issues of categorisation, and to basic conceptual framework of prototype theory, with special emphasis on the difference between prototype and classical theory. The thesis of this paper is that the prototypical theory of categorisation can not be coherent alternative to classical theory, even though many prototypical effects actualy occurs in human way of categorisation.
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