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Unifying the manuscripts collected in this volume is Gärdenfors’s (2000) theory of conceptual spaces. It has meanwhile established itself both within contemporary cognitive science and beyond, as a descriptive approach mediating between the symbolic and the sub-symbolic levels of representation.
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Kaipainen, M., Zenker, F., Hautamäki, A., Gärdenfors, P. (2019). Editors’ Introduction. In: Kaipainen, M., Zenker, F., Hautamäki, A., Gärdenfors, P. (eds) Conceptual Spaces: Elaborations and Applications. Synthese Library, vol 405. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12800-5_1
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