ABSTRACT
A different predicate set is required, one that is likely to be unique for each of the aforementioned variants of pattern recognition and, for endless others. Early in the history of pattern recognition research the latter came to be dubbed “template matching”. A template matching pattern recognition system can normalize successfully, and make a fair measure of similarity, only with foreknowledge of the image’s template. The Hoffding step aside, there is Charles Peirce’s concern for the representation bearer. Historically, and commonly, category is equated with concept. The equation intimates that the representation bearer of a category is a definitional structure. The exemplar theory is typically advanced in response to the interpretation of category representations as prototypes. In the theory of prototypes, a category is expressed by a summary representation in the form of a central tendency of all the experienced category members.
