Nearness relations in environmental space
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چکیده
This paper presents an experiment with human subjects concerning the vague spatial relation ‘near’ in environmental space. After the topic is introduced and relevant previous work surveyed, the experiment is described. Three approaches to experimental analysis are presented and discussed: nearness neighbourhoods as regions with broad boundaries, fuzzy nearness and distance measures, and four-valued logic. Issues discussed in further detail are the truth gap – truth glut hypotheses regarding the psychology of vague predicates, and formal properties of the three-valued nearness relation. Conclusions are drawn and directions for future work suggested.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- International Journal of Geographical Information Science
دوره 15 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2001