Classical logical versus quantum conceptual thought: Examples in economics, decision theory and concept theory

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5494, Issue , 2009, Pages 128-142

  Aerts, Diederik ^a   D'Hooghe, Bart ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSICAL PROBABILITIES; DETERMINISTIC PROCESS; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; MATHEMATICAL STRUCTURE; QUANTUM MECHANICAL; QUANTUM MECHANICAL FORMALISM; SECOND LAYER; THOUGHT PROCESS;

GAME THEORY;

DECISION THEORY;

EID: 67049117683     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-00834-4_12     Document Type: Conference Paper

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