Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things by George Lakoff

The author has a point when he says that "Every time we see something as a kind of thing, for example, a tree, we are categorizing" (5). I think the reason for this is to create an understanding of something we are not familiar with. It's like if we saw some sort of unfamiliar species, we may try to understand what it is by comparing it to something we do know. That is why categorizing is a great thing to do sometimes. Categorizing is probably even a subconscious thing we do because we categorize something everyday according to how we categorize things. But I think categorizing can be hard sometimes when it is defining music. Some music have elements of many genres and its hard to categorize them in just one word because they may be defined by more than one genre.