Two of Your Friends Are Having a Heated Argument About

question 409

Multiple Choice

Two of your friends are having a heated argument about whether a particular basketball player is one of the super-greats or just one of the greats of basketball. Because you have read this chapter, you point out to your friends that their argument may never be resolved because:

• A) "super-great basketball players" is a natural concept with fuzzy boundaries.
• B) "super-great basketball players" is a heuristic without hard-and-fast rules.
• C) "super-great basketball players" is a formal concept, but your friends are unaware of the rules that define it.
• D) "super-great basketball players" is an algorithm, and requires a clear prototype for accurate classification.

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