Qualitative Representations How People Reason and Learn about the Continuous World

An argument that qualitative representations--symbolic representations that carve continuous phenomena into meaningful units--are central to human cognition.

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Main Author Forbus, Kenneth D
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge MIT Press 2019
The MIT Press
Edition1
SeriesThe MIT Press
Subjects
Cognition
Reasoning
Space perception
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Summary:An argument that qualitative representations--symbolic representations that carve continuous phenomena into meaningful units--are central to human cognition.
ISBN:0262038943
9780262038942
DOI:10.7551/mitpress/11578.001.0001