Natural Concepts and the Economics of Cognition and Communication.
This article takes a cognitive approach to natural concepts. The aim is to introduce criteria that are evaluated with respect to how they support the cognitive economy of humans when using concepts in reasoning and communicating with them. I first present the theory of conceptual spaces as a tool fo...
| Publicado en: | Philosophia Vol. 52; no. 4; pp. 865 - 883 |
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Sep2024
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