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Vagueness, Graded Membership, and Conceptual Spaces| old_uid | 14842 |
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| title | Vagueness, Graded Membership, and Conceptual Spaces |
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| start_date | 2014/12/17 |
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| schedule | 10h |
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| online | no |
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| summary | This paper is concerned with a version of Kamp and Partee’s account of graded membership that relies on the conceptual spaces framework. Five experiments are reported, two to construct a particular shape space, two to detect which shapes representable in that space are typical for certain sorts of objects, and one to elicit degrees of membership for the various shapes from which the shape space was constructed. Assuming Kamp and Partee’s proposal, the first four experiments yield predictions regarding the degrees to which people will judge the shapes in the shape space to be members of certain classes. These predictions are confronted with the degrees observed in the last experiment, thereby yielding a test of the account of graded membership at issue. The outcome of this confrontation supports the conceptual spaces version of Kamp and Partee’s account of graded membership. |
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| responsibles | Baratgin |
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