This seems similar to Prototype Theory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototype_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototype_theory) in Linguistics / Cog Sci

This seems similar to Prototype Theory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototype_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototype_theory) in Linguistics / Cog Sci — if you ask a person to name a profession, for instance, there are a small number of "prototype examples" that people tend to pick (Teacher, Doctor, Lawyer). For the example of the New York City question, "Information booth" at Grand Central is a prototype "meeting point in NYC" (I would imagine that the observation deck of the Empire State Building is as well). And "noon" is a prototype example of a time to meet.