A quantum probability perspective on borderline vagueness

Topics in Cognitive Science

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 711-736

  Blutner, Reinhard ^a   Pothos, Emmanuel M ^b   Bruza, Peter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Borderline contradictions; Contextualism; Fuzzy logic; Neuronal network; Quantum interference; Quantum probability; Vagueness

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BORDERLINE CONTRADICTIONS; CONTEXTUALISM; DECISION MAKING; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMAN; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE; QUANTUM PROBABILITY; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMANTICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; VAGUENESS;

BORDERLINE CONTRADICTIONS; CONTEXTUALISM; FUZZY LOGIC; NEURONAL NETWORK; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE; QUANTUM PROBABILITY; VAGUENESS;

FUZZY LOGIC; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY THEORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMANTICS;

EID: 84885474954     PISSN: 17568757     EISSN: 17568765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tops.12041     Document Type: Article

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