Projektdatenbank (ab 2004)

Projektnummer

0059622

Zusammenfassung

Following Gärdenfors, the project applies "conceptual spaces" to model transitions between information states. A basic assumption is that human reasoning and argumentation can be understood as manipulations of spatial representations. Project outcomes demonstrate the fruitfulness of modelling human reasoning and argumentation geometrically, and shed new light on problems in extant formal and informal approaches. This addresses the lack of integration between informal work on argumentation in communication, rhetoric, or argumentation-studies, and formal work on reasoning in philosophy, ...