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Understanding Predication in Conceptual Spaces
Claudio Masolo, Daniele Porello
139 - 152
10.3233/978-1-61499-660-6-139
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
Volume 283: Formal Ontology in Information Systems
Abstract

We argue that a cognitive semantics has to take into account the possibly partial information that a cognitive agent has of the world. After discussing Gärdenfors's view of objects in conceptual spaces, we offer a number of viable treatments of partiality of information and we formalize them by means of alternative predicative logics. Our analysis shows that understanding the nature of simple predicative sentences is crucial for a cognitive semantics.

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