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This introductory chapter provides a non-technical presentation of conceptual spaces as a representational framework for modeling different kinds of similarity relations in various cognitive domains. Moreover, we briefly summarize each chapter in this volume.
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A slightly more complex definition, also involving the context where a concept is used, is proposed in Gärdenfors (2000, ch. 4).
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Peter Gärdenfors gratefully acknowledges support from the Swedish Research Council for the Linnaeus environment Thinking in Time: Cognition, Communication and Learning. Frank Zenker acknowledges funding from the Swedish Research Council.
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Gärdenfors, P., Zenker, F. (2015). Editors’ Introduction: Conceptual Spaces at Work. In: Zenker, F., Gärdenfors, P. (eds) Applications of Conceptual Spaces. Synthese Library, vol 359. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15021-5_1
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