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Concept modeling, essential properties, and similarity spaces

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2002

Peter Gärdenfors
Affiliation:
Lund University Cognitive Science, Kunghuset, S-222 22 Lund, Sweden Peter.Gardenfors@lucs.lu.se http://www.lucs.lu.se
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Abstract

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Bloom argues that concepts depend on psychological essentialism. He rejects the proposal that concepts are based on perceptual similarity spaces because it cannot account for how we handle new properties and does not fit with our intuitions about essences. I argue that by using a broader notion of similarity space, it is possible to explain these features of concepts.

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© 2001 Cambridge University Press