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The present paper is concerned with a critical examination of recent theoretical approaches to concepts. Specifically, it addresses the question of how to model natural concepts whose exemplars vary along a continuum of concept membership. In the first section, relevant positions in the theory of concepts and categorization are discussed. Subsequently a representational model accounting for people’s comprehension of simple and complex concepts is outlined.
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Eckes, T. (1989). Knowledge Structures and Knowledge Representation: Psychological Models of Conceptual Order. In: Optiz, O. (eds) Conceptual and Numerical Analysis of Data. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75040-3_19
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