Timo Honkela, Modeling Meaning and Knowledge, 4.4.2016

Timo Honkela

Modeling Meaning and Knowledge4 Apr 2016

timo.honkela@helsinki.fi

Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions and Gärdenfors’

Conceptual Spaces

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Thomas S. Kuhn:Scructure of Scientific Revolutions

Santiago, Chile, 12.12.2012See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kuhn

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Scructure of Scientific Revolutions

● The discovery of "anomalies" during revolutions in science leads to new paradigms

● New paradigms then ask new questions of old data, move beyond the mere "puzzle-solving" of the previous paradigm, change the rules of the game and the "map" directing new research

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Structure_of_Scientific_Revolutions

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Scructure of Scientific Revolutions

Revolution in science

Revolution inconcepts and terms

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Conceptual Spaces

● A conceptual space is a multi-dimensional feature space where points denote objects, and regions denote concepts.

● In conceptual spaces, quality dimensionsdenote basic featuresin which conceptsand objects canbe compared.

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Gärdenfors on Kuhn

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From conceptual change to scientific revolutions

Five types of change● (1) addition or deletion of

special laws● (2) change in scale or

metric● (3) change in the importance

of dimensions● (4) change in the separability

of dimensions● (5) addition or deletion of dimensions

http://cogsys.blogspot.fi/2013/02/the-fourth-workshop-on-modeling.html

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