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Brown, R. (1958). How shall a thing be called? _Psychological Review
65_, 14-21.
A well constructed argument supporting the idea that the choice of
term used for any referent which has multiple choices from a hierarchy
of terms is most likely made by utility. That is, the term chosen is
that which is going to contain the most useful information for the
context. The argument is made by comparing with other notions of how
the choice is made. This may seem quite obvious but the elucidation
structures categorization as the jumping off point for classification.
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