AL: Glossary notes
- Nimisha Asthagiri (Deactivated)
Owned by Nimisha Asthagiri (Deactivated)
Mar 19, 2018
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- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concept
- Concepts
- Concepts as mental representations, where concepts are entities that exist in the mind (mental objects)
- Concepts as abilities, where concepts are abilities peculiar to cognitive agents (mental states)
- Concepts as Fregean senses (see sense and reference), where concepts are abstract objects, as opposed to mental objects and mental states
- Concepts formed by:
- The logical acts of the understanding by which concepts are generated as to their form are:
- comparison, i.e., the likening of mental images to one another in relation to the unity of consciousness;
- reflection, i.e., the going back over different mental images, how they can be comprehended in one consciousness; and finally
- abstraction or the segregation of everything else by which the mental images differ ...
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchy
- flat (max degree approaches infinity)
- overlapping (multiple parents)
- Containment (strict subset)
- Subsumptive containment hierarchy
- Compositional containment hierarchy
- linear (max degree = 1)
- branching (degree > 1)
- Nested (subset)
- superordinate - higher level concept
- subordinate - lower level concept
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology
- Other thoughts
- Customize hypermedia links: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/dcs/people/research/csrmaj/daniel_onah_inted2015.pdf