Holism, conceptual role, and conceptual similarity

Holism, Concept Individuation, and Conceptual Change

The paper discusses concept individuation in the context of scientific concepts and conceptual change in science. It is argued that some concepts can be individuated in different ways. A particular term may be viewed as corresponding to a single concept (which is ascribed to every person from a whole scientific field). But at the same time, we can legitimately individuate in a more fine grained...

Similarity From Conceptual Relations

The main focus of this paper is how to measure similarity in a content-based information retrieval environment. In the first part we define the information base, which is a generative framework where an ontology in combination with a concept language defines a set of well-formed concepts. Well-formed concepts is assumed to be the basis for an indexing of the information base in the sense that t...

Similarity for Conceptual Querying

The focus of this paper is approaches to measuring similarity for application in content-based query evaluation. Rather than only comparing at the level of words, the issue here is conceptual resemblance. The basis is a knowledge base defining major concepts of the domain and may include taxonomic and ontological domain knowledge. The challenge for support of queries in this context is an evalu...

Perceptual Similarity and Conceptual Structure

Conceptual role semantics

Conceptual role semantics (CRS) is the view that the meanings of expressions of a language (or other symbol system) or the contents of mental states are determined or explained by the role of the expressions or mental states in thinking. The theory can be taken to be applicable to language in the ordinary sense, to mental representations, conceived of either as symbols in a " language of though...