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[ZYGOON CHART]

the ANIMAL template rather like an official form with boxes to fill out,
the child can represent that all walruses, not just this one, beget live
cubs. If the child sees the animal feed on fish, she will think that all
walruses can eat fish. What I said of the child so far applies to adults as
well, when they include new information in their mental encyclopedia.
To demonstrate how this occurs, let me take the liberty of intro-
ducing new concepts into your encyclopedia, starting with this:

Zygoonsare the only predators of hyenas.

Before reading the sentence above, you knew that cats were born of
other cats, elephants of elephants and so on. Now you will probably
agree that zygoons are born of other zygoons. What happened then
was that:


  1. You were given a new label: "zygoon."

  2. You created a new entry ZYGOON in your mental encyclopedia.


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