A theory of concepts and their combinations I: The structure of the sets of contexts and properties

Kybernetes

Volumn 34, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 167-191

  Aerts, Diederik ^a   Gabora, Liane ^a,b  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Cybernetics; Mathematical modelling; Memory; Psychology

Indexed keywords

CYBERNETICS; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUANTUM THEORY;

COGNITION; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; FORMAL STRUCTURES; LOWER BOUNDS; MATHEMATICAL STRUCTURE; MODELING CONCEPTS; PARTIAL ORDER RELATION; PSYCHOLOGY;

STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 17044397492     PISSN: 0368492X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03684920510575799     Document Type: Article

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