Qualitative representations : how people reason and learn about the continuous world

Qualitative representations : how people reason and learn about the continuous world / Kenneth D. Forbus.

An argument that qualitative representations -- symbolic representations that carve continuous phenomena into meaningful units -- are central to human cognition. In this book, Kenneth Forbus proposes that qualitative representations hold the key to one of the deepest mysteries of cognitive science:...

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Main Author: Forbus, Kenneth D. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : The MIT Press, [2018]
Series:MIT Press.
Subjects:
Cognition.
Reasoning.
Space perception.
cognition.
space perception.
PSYCHOLOGY > Cognitive Psychology.
SCIENCE > Cognitive Science.
Cognition
Reasoning
Space perception
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction and preliminaries
  • Introduction
  • Representation
  • Reasoning
  • Analogy
  • Dynamics
  • Quantity
  • Relationships between quantities
  • Qualitative process theory
  • Examples using QP theory
  • Causality
  • Qualitative simulation and reasoning about change
  • Modeling
  • Analogy in dynamics
  • Dynamics in language
  • Space
  • Qualitative spatial reasoning: a theoretical framework
  • Qualitative spatial calculi
  • Understanding sketches and diagrams
  • Learning and reasoning
  • Learning and conceptual change
  • Commonsense reasoning
  • Expert reasoning
  • Summary and new directions
  • Summary
  • New directions
  • Bibliography
  • Notes
  • Index.

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