A Logic for Concepts and Similarity

A Logic for Concepts and Similarity

Categorisation of objects into classes is currently supported by (at least) two ‘orthogonal’ methods. In logic-based approaches, classifications are defined through ontologies or knowledge bases which describe the existing relationships among terms. Description logic (DL) has become one of the most successful formalisms for representing such knowledge bases, in particular because theoretically ...

passivity in waiting for godot and endgame: a psychoanalytic reading

this study intends to investigate samuel beckett’s waiting for godot and endgame under the lacanian psychoanalysis. it begins by explaining the most important concepts of lacanian psychoanalysis. the beckettian characters are studied regarding their state of unconscious, and not the state of consciousness as is common in most beckett studies. according to lacan, language plays the sole role in ...

Concepts and fuzzy logic

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Resasoning about Concepts and Similarity

Logic, Individuals and Concepts

This extended abstract gives a brief outline of the connections between the descriptions and variable concepts. Thus, the notion of a concept is extended to include both the syntax and semantics features. The evaluation map in use is parame-terized by a kind of computational environment, the index, giving rise to indexed concepts. The concepts are inhabited into language by the descriptions fro...