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Lyndsey is asked whether a tomato is a vegetable or a fruit and she has trouble making the distinction, likely because a tomato does not resemble her _____ of what a fruit is

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Lyndsey is asked whether a tomato is a vegetable or a fruit and she has trouble making the distinction, likely because a tomato does not resemble her natural concept of what a fruit is.
We all have natural concepts of what we believe things should look like. So, Lyndsey here knows that apples, pears, oranges, etc. are all fruit, but she doesn't think tomatoes should fall under this category.
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