Not all of the members of everyday categories have the same features. Most fish have gills, fins, and scales. Sharks lack the fe

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Not all of the members of everyday categories have the same features. Most fish have gills, fins, and scales. Sharks lack the fe

ature of scales, yet they are still categorized as fish. This poses a problem for the ___________ approach to categorization.

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meriva · Answer 1 · 2021-12-02T18:07:17+03:00

Answer: Definitional approach

Explanation:

Definitional approach to categorization is the approach that is used making judgement about any object whether or not it belong to the category based on the definition of category.If category's definition go along with object then it is considered as member of category.

According to the question, fish category can have gill, scale or fins which creates issue in classification of them into fish category as per definition of fish.Thus, problem in using definitional approach for categorization occurs in this case.