文档介绍：Conceptual Spaces
The Geometry of Thought
Peter Gärdenfors
A Bradford Book
The MIT Press
Cambridge, Massachusetts
London, England
© 2000 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Gärdenfors, Peter.
Conceptual spaces: the geometry of thought / Peter Gärdenfors.
p. cm.
"A Bradford book."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-262-07199-1 (alk paper)
1. Artificial intelligence. 2. Cognitive science. I. Title.
Q335 .G358 2000
âdc21 99-046109
Contents
Preface Preface
Chapter 1 1
Dimensions
The Problem of Modeling Representations 1
Conceptual Spaces as a Framework for Representations 4
Quality Dimensions 6
Phenomenal and Scientific Interpretations of Dimensions 8
Three Sensory Examples: Color, Sound, and Taste 9
Some Mathematical Notions 15
How Dimensions Are Identified 21
Integral and Separable Dimensions 24
On the Origins of Quality Dimensions 26
Conclusion 30
Chapter 2 33
Symbolic, Conceptual, and Subconceptual Representations
An Analogy for the Three Kinds of Representations 33
Symbolic Representations 35
Subconceptual Representations 40
Conceptual Representations 43
Connections to Neuroscience 48
53
The Jungle of Representations 56
Chapter 3 59
Properties
Program 59
Properties in Intensional Semantics 60
Criticism of the Traditional View of Properties 62
Criteria for Natural Regions of Conceptual Spaces 66
Natural Properties 70
Reconsidering the Problems 77
The R