Semantics, conceptual spaces, and the meeting of minds

Synthese

Volumn 190, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2165-2193

  Warglien, Massimo ^a,b   Gärdenfors, Peter ^c  

^a CA' FOSCARI UNIVERSITY OF VENICE   (Italy)

^b CA' FOSCARI UNIVERSITY OF VENICE   (Italy)

^c Department of Philosophy ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cognitive semantics; Compositionality; Conceptual spaces; Fixpoint semantics; Meeting of minds

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879787429     PISSN: 00397857     EISSN: 15730964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-011-9963-z     Document Type: Article

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