ABSTRACT
The question “What is the source and structure of human knowledge?” is as old as the history of mankind. The answer is still incomplete, but some fresh new ways have recently been formulated by cognitive psychologists which suggest that real progress has been made in this endeavor. Although no definitive, universally accepted solution has been put forth to the riddle of the form of human knowledge, there does exist a body of data that has iden tified some of its essential properties. The “form of human knowledge” is beginning to take shape and, in this chapter, part of that information will be systematized under the rubric of prototypes and schemata.
