Conceptual Spaces

In the previous post, I argued that the "good services are verbs" heuristic, while valuable, is incomplete. Verbs alone cannot capture the material infrastructure, institutional rules, practice...

The previous post concluded that the Motivational Design Framework lacked a unifying architecture - that the synthesis of SDT, discrepancy theory, ARCS, flow, and Dreyfus was ad hoc rather than...

This post was originally written in November 2024. It has since been revised to include cross-references to the companion Language, Frames, and Domain Understanding series - on case grammar,...

The previous post surveyed competing frameworks for representing knowledge - distributed cognition, activity theory, social representations, prototype theory - and argued that Gärdenfors's conceptual...

The previous posts in this series established that services involve objects with properties, events that change those properties, and systems in which those events unfold. The next question is...