Representation
3 posts tagged with “Representation”
Research Updates
What is a State Space?
The previous post showed how concepts can be represented geometrically - as regions in multi-dimensional vector spaces where similarity is distance. This geometric formalism is powerful: it provides...
Conceptual Spaces: The Geometry of Meaning
The previous post surveyed competing frameworks for representing knowledge - distributed cognition, activity theory, social representations, prototype theory - and argued that Gärdenfors's conceptual...
From Cognitive Frameworks to Geometric Formalism
The previous posts established that services involve objects with properties, events that change those properties, and systems in which those events unfold. The next question is representational: how...