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| Object categories: Object categories in linguistics are groups of nouns that share similar properties. These properties can be physical (e.g., animate vs. inanimate), semantic (e.g., natural vs. artificial), or syntactic (e.g., direct object vs. indirect object). See also Description levels, Categorization, Classification._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Peter Gärdenfors on Object Categories - Dictionary of Arguments
I 124 Definition Object Category/Category/Word/Gärdenfors: an object category is defined by the following elements: (i) a set of relevant domains (possibly increased in the course of time) (ii) a set of convex regions in these domains (possibly a region is identical to the entire domain). (iii) weighting of the salience of the domains (context-dependent) (iv) information on how the regions of different domains are related. (v) information on the part-whole relations. --- I 125 Hierarchy of object categories: is reflected in language and cognition. There are three types of generalization: (i) including convex regions of domains (ii) reduction of the part-to-whole relations for a category (iii) reduction of the domains associated with a category. E.g. a plastic duck only shares the form with the biological concept of the duck. The generalized term is then "duck-shaped object"._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Gä I P. Gärdenfors The Geometry of Meaning Cambridge 2014 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-29