User talk:MollyMYZ/sandbox/Concept draft

Hello! I have been assigned to peer review your article (as written in the sandbox draft).

Overall, the article is well-written, and is objective in its description of information. The references do not seem too out of date. Perhaps more criticism of the Prototype theory would add more to this article.

However, there are a few points that should be addressed, and I have them listed below if you would like to look at them. Hopefully this will help you make some useful edits in the near future.

“Prototype theory came out of problems with the classical view of conceptual structure.”

What kinds of problems specifically served as the impetus to start a Prototype theory?

“There are not necessarily any necessary conditions for membership, a dog can still be a dog with only three legs.”

Rephrase “necessarily any necessary” and it is better to say “For instance, a dog can still be a dog [...]”

Also, it would be best to omit personal pronouns, such as “we” or “our” — they tend to crop up a lot in the article.

“Participants willingly and consistently rate objects in categories like 'vegetable' or 'furniture' as more or less typical of that class.”

For what study were these participants polled? Also, what objects in particular? Ones such as “chair” for ‘furniture’? If so, these need to be specified.

“According to Lech, Gunturkun, and Suchan explain that categorization [...]”

Rephrase as “According to Lech, Gunturkun, and Suchan, categorization [...]”

“The Prototype perspective is proposed as an alternative view to the Classical approach.”

Proposed by who, exactly? Are there any particular advocates who proposed this as an alternative, or are they the same proponents as the ones who founded the theory?

“The Classical approach and Aristotelian categories may be a better descriptor in some cases [6].”

And to which cases are you referring?

In addition, the Taylor link directs me to a page where no entry is recorded, so that may need to be rectified in the future.

Jag1498 (talk) 04:41, 26 November 2019 (UTC)