What is the key principle behind folk theories of word meanings?
A) Complex sentences have meanings that are often subject to ambiguous interpretation.
B) Our knowledge of what things are at present restricts what they will always represent for us.
C) Ambiguous sentences will always be interpreted in terms of what is most familiar to us.
D) We will define members of a category in terms of what is most familiar to us.

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Folk theories of word meanings suggest that we define members of a category based on what is most familiar to us, which is the key principle behind these theories.

What Is the Key Principle Behind Folk Theories of Word