Conceptual Combination: Extension and Intension. Commentary on Aerts, Gabora, and Sozzo
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Aerts et al. provide a valuable model to capture the interactive nature of conceptual combination in conjunctions and disjunctions. The commentary provides a brief review of the interpretation of these interactions that has been offered in the literature, and argues for a closer link between the more traditional account in terms of concept intensions, and the parameters that emerge from the fitting of the Quantum Probability model.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Topics in cognitive science
دوره 6 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2014