Towards a Cognitive Semantics of Types

Types are a crucial concept in conceptual modelling, logic, and knowledge representation as they are an ubiquitous device to understand and formalise the classification of objects. We propose a logical treatment of types based on a cognitively inspired modelling that accounts for the amount of information that is actually available to a certain agent in the task of classification. We develop a predicative modal logic whose semantics is based on conceptual spaces that model the actual information that a cognitive agent has about objects, types, and the classification of an object under a certain type. In particular, we account for possible failures in the classification, for the lack of sufficient information, and for some aspects related to vagueness.

Publication type: 
Contributo in atti di convegno
Author or Creator: 
Porello, Daniele
Guizzardi, Giancarlo
Publisher: 
Springer, Berlin , Germania
Springer, Berlin, DEU
Source: 
AI*IA 2017, pp. 428–440, 1-5/01/2017
info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Porello, Daniele; Guizzardi, Giancarlo/congresso_nome:AI*IA 2017/congresso_luogo:/congresso_data:1-5/01/2017/anno:2017/pagina_da:428/pagina_a:440/intervallo_pagine:428–440
Date: 
2017
Resource Identifier: 
http://www.cnr.it/prodotto/i/401600
https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70169-1_32
info:doi:10.1007/978-3-319-70169-1_32
urn:isbn:978-3-319-70168-4
Language: 
Eng
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