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Partitioned Representations

A Study in Mental Representation, Language Understanding and Linguistic Structure

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  • © 1991

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Authors:
  1. John Dinsmore

    1. Department of Computer Science, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, USA

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Part of the book series: Studies in Cognitive Systems (COGS, volume 8)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Nuts and Bolts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Mental Representation

      • John Dinsmore
      Pages 3-44

    3. Partitioned Representations

      • John Dinsmore
      Pages 45-91

    4. Language: Process and Structure

      • John Dinsmore
      Pages 93-114

    5. Three Levels of Language Processing

      • John Dinsmore
      Pages 115-138

  3. Studies in Language

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139
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    2. Pedro’s Donkey and Oedipus’s Mother

      • John Dinsmore
      Pages 141-177

    3. Satisfying Presuppositions in Discourse

      • John Dinsmore
      Pages 179-192

    4. Space Frogs and Henry Ford

      • John Dinsmore
      Pages 193-206

    5. Temporal Aspect

      • John Dinsmore
      Pages 207-235

    6. General Conclusions

      • John Dinsmore
      Pages 237-245

  4. Appendices Formal Models

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 247-247
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    2. A Logic of Partitioned Representations

      • John Dinsmore
      Pages 249-271

    3. Generalized Natural Deduction

      • John Dinsmore
      Pages 273-291

    4. A Computational Model

      • John Dinsmore
      Pages 293-309

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 311-333
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About this book

Cognitive science is a field that began with the realization that researchers in varied disciplines-psychology, artificial intelligence, linguistics, philosophy, formal semantics, neuroscience, and others-had taken on a common set of problems in representation and meaning, in reasoning and language. Nevertheless, cognitive science as a whole enjoys no common methodology or theoretical framework, and is in danger of becoming even more fragmented with time. There are two reasons for this. First, cognitive science is built on existing methodologies that have different historical origins. AB a result, the psychologist's truth is different from the linguist's truth. The artificial intelligence researcher's truth is different from the philosopher's truth. The neuroscientist's truth is different from the formal semanticist's truth. All too often there is little or no recognition of the relevance of work in other disciplines to one's own concerns. Second, cognitive scientists tend to develop theories around isolated problems. For instance, there are theories about how humans categorize concepts, about how humans analyze linguistic expressions syntactically, about how the English tense system works semantically, about how humans reason about space or reason about time, about how goal-directed problem solving occurs, about how the brain computes, and so on.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Computer Science, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, USA

    John Dinsmore

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Partitioned Representations

  • Book Subtitle: A Study in Mental Representation, Language Understanding and Linguistic Structure

  • Authors: John Dinsmore

  • Series Title: Studies in Cognitive Systems

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3574-0

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1991

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-1348-9Published: 31 July 1991

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-5584-0Published: 31 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-3574-0Published: 07 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0924-0780

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 333

  • Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Psycholinguistics

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