Dynamic Conceptual Semantics
A Logico-Philosophical Investigation into Concept Formation and Understanding
Renate Bartsch(Author)
The Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications (Publisher)
Published on 1. June 1998
Book
Hardback
302 pages
978-1-57586-125-8 (ISBN)
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Description
Presented in this book is a theory of concept formation and understanding that does not make use of a notion of an innate mental language as a means of concept representation. Instead, experimental concepts are treated semantically as stabilising structuring of growing sets of data, which are sets of experienced satisfaction situations for expressions, and theoretical concepts are based on coherent sets of general sentences held true. There are two kinds of structures to be established: general concepts by means of similarity sets under perspectives and historical concepts. This gives rise to a theory of understanding new situations and expressions by integrating new data into established sets of data salva stability, or by extending the conceptual structure in a metaphorical or metonymical way. The theory provides a way to understand what identity between propositional attitudes amounts to, especially how people can have more or less the same belief.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Cambridge University Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
570 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-57586-125-8 (9781575861258)
Schweitzer Classification
Person
Content
Introduction; Preliminaries; 1. Concept formation: its basis and structure; 2. Concept formation: the construction of new concepts; 3. Knowledge and understanding; 4. Correction in concept formation; 5. Conceptual semantics and propositional attitudes; 6. Concept formation and connectionist models; 7. Summary and conclusion; Bibliography; Subject index.