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Recognition of a category's members comes to rest on a salient mark that co-occurs with them rather than on what makes them members
Definition
Mechanism
A recogniser, such as a person, a classifier or an institution, comes to identify members of a Category by a mark, salient to it, that co-occurred with membership where it learned, rather than by the features that make something a member. While mark and membership stay together the recognition works; where they come apart, lookalikes bearing the mark are admitted and members without it are missed. The mark need not be false, only insufficient. A mark that defines membership, or a recogniser that checks the defining features and uses the mark only as a first cue, is not an instance.
Invariants
- A recogniser identifies members of a category.
- Its recognition rests on a mark that co-occurs with membership but does not define it.
Risks
Failure modes
Mark read as membership
a lookalike bearing the mark is taken to be a member.
Missing mark read as non-membership
a member without the mark is missed.
Relationships
Builds on
References
Infrastructure
Grouping of objects
Nothing in this library builds on this pattern yet.
Reference