The evolution of convex categories
The evolution of convex categories
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DOI:
10.1007/s10988-008-9024-3
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发表时间:
2007-01-01
影响因子:
1.1
通讯作者:
Jaeger, Gerhard
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作者:
Jaeger, Gerhard
Gardenfors (Conceptual spaces, 2000) argues that the semantic domains that natural language deals with have a geometrical structure. He gives evidence that simple natural language adjectives usually denote natural properties, where a natural property is a convex region of such a "conceptual space." In this paper I will show that this feature of natural categories need not be stipulated as basic. In fact, it can be shown to be the result of evolutionary dynamics of communicative strategies under very general assumptions.