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...

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Published in:	Philosophia Vol. 52; no. 4; pp. 865 - 883
Main Author:	Gärdenfors, Peter
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer Nature Sep2024
Subjects:	Concept learning Communication Mathematical models Coherent states Convex domains
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost