Reintroducing few basic ideas in Cognitive Linguistics: An elementary computational model

Immanuel Kant, in his Critique of Pure Reason, first introduced the notion of categorization. However, his context was little different. He introduced this very notion of categorization in the context of existence and pure knowledge/reason. Ludwig Wittgenstein introduced the notion of family resemblance, which, we will see later that, is nothing but explicitly written form of a category. Anyway, in various areas apart from Linguistics the idea of the categorization was slowly being introduced and discussed. Finally it got its structured and rigorous shape in a discipline called Cognitive Linguistics during 80s and 90s. The very way we comprehend our surrounding world is quiet an enigmatic one. How do we experience our existing world? How we give things their names? Cognitive Linguists tried to provide the answer to these age-old questions in a new perspective. They claimed that the capacity of categorization of human brain is innate. We experience our surrounding world, being unaware of this very truth that simultaneously our brain continue to make categories out of hundreds of things. We simply select things, compare or discard them, include or exclude them somewhere in the furthest most corner of our brain and we do all of these unknowingly, at least not consciously. The process we are engaged in is actually to know/identify/understand/recognize one thing in terms of another. The technical term of this process is called categorization.