Name Strategy: Its Existence and Implications

TL;DR

This paper explores the concept of stereotyping across memory strategies, colour naming, and object naming, linking it to philosophical implications about language, mathematics, and cognition, including the nature of truth and the continuum hypothesis.

Contribution

It unifies various memory and language strategies under the concept of stereotyping and discusses their implications for philosophy, mathematics, and psycholinguistics.

Findings

Colour and traffic accident classifications show similar patterns.

Real valued quantities occur inherently, affecting mathematical hypotheses.

Thought can exist independently of speech, supporting psycholinguistic models.

Abstract

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. 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. Some consequences of the existence of a name strategy for the philosophy of language and mathematics are discussed. It is argued that real valued quantities occur {\it ab initio}. The implication of real valued truth quantities is that the {\bf Continuum Hypothesis} of pure mathematics is side-stepped. The existence of name strategy shows that thought/sememes and talk/phonemes can be separate, and this vindicates the assumption of thought occurring before talk used in psycholinguistic speech production models.