Geometry of meaning : semantics based on conceptual spaces / Peter Gärdenfors.
In The Geometry of Meaning, Peter Gärdenfors proposes a theory of semantics that bridges cognitive science and linguistics and shows how theories of cognitive processes, in particular concept formation, can be exploited in a general semantic model. He argues that our minds organize the information i...
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| Other title: | Semantics based on conceptual spaces. |
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| Language: | English |
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The MIT Press,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- Semantics as meetings of minds: What is semantics? ; Conceptual spaces ; The development of semantic domains ; Pointing as meeting of minds ; Meetiung of minds as fixpoints
- Lexical esmantics: Object categories and the semantics of nouns ; Properties and the semantics of adjectives ; Actions ; Events ; The semantics of verbs ; The geometry of propositional meaning ; A cognitive analysis of word classes ; Compositionality
- Envoi: Modeling meaning in robots and in the semantic web ; Taking stock.
- Appendix: Existence of fixpoints.