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Individuals: In philosophy, individuals are entities that are distinct from other entities. They are typically characterized by their own unique properties and experiences. Individuals can be physical objects, such as humans, animals, and plants, or they can be non-physical objects, such as minds, souls, and thoughts. See also Particulars, Individuation.
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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 Individuals - Dictionary of Arguments

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Individuals/objects/Gärdenfors: they can be accepted as points in the concept space. At these points, different properties (dimensions) can be assumed if the point is assumed to be a vector of coordinates for each dimension. At the same time, it is clear that no further properties can be localized from the dimension at the point: i.e. an object cannot be e.g. yellow and blue at the same time, but it can be large and warm at the same time.
Ontology/Vectors/Gärdenfors: but these vectors are only cognitive constructs.
>Conceptual space
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Properties/Object/Individual: all properties are never represented at the same time. Therefore, we can use partial vectors.
Vector: representing objects as vectors in a conceptual space means that individuals are treated as a special case by categories where all regions of the domain are reduced to points.
>Properties.
Individual/categories: there are, however, aspects that distinguish objects (individuals) from categories.
>Categories, >Aspects.

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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.

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P. Gärdenfors
The Geometry of Meaning Cambridge 2014


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