This is a preliminary study about the classic and prototype models of categorization. The classic model of knowledge categorization is based on the Aristotelian ideas and the prototype model of categorization was elaborated by Eleanor Rosch, a cognitive researcher, in the 1970s. The antagonistic positions of the classic and the prototype model are confronted; the former with the categories defined only by the properties shared by all members of the class, and the latter, where the most characteristic features of the category are condensed in some members.
Categorization; Cognitive sciences; Prototype categorization model; Classic categorization model