gestures—that they use actions in space to create meaning,

Fifth Law of Cognition: Cognition mirrors perception.

to superordinate categories, we see that different kinds of fruit, furniture, tools, and clothing do not share shapes.

First General Fact Worth Remembering: Associations to names are more abstract than associations to pictures.

The default and neutral way of referring to things, the level first used by children, the level of apple and car, has been called the basic level. The more general level, the level of vehicle, fruit, and animal, has been called the superordinate level, and the more specific level, Tesla, Gala apple, and cocker spaniel, has been called the

Second Law of Cognition: Action molds perception.

we keep track of the world that was once in view and no longer

That same distortion, finer discrimination for things that are close to us than for things that are far, occurs for judgments of people on social dimensions. People judge members of their own social group, a close group, to be more different from each other than members of other social groups,

people are wheeled about in a chair and handed what they need—if they don’t walk or reach for objects—they do not adapt to the prismatic lenses.