Sense generation: A “quasi-classical” approach to concepts and concept combination
Cognitive SciencePublished 1 December 1995Open access
Bradley Franks
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This article presents a detailed formal approach to concepts and concept combination.Sense generation is a competence-level theory that attempts to respect constraints from the various cognitive sciences, and postulates "quasi-classical" conceptual structures where ottributes receive only one value (but are defeasible and so do not represent necessary and sufficient conditions on category membership) and where classification is binary (but explicitly context-sensitive).It is also argued that any general theory of concepts must account for "privative" combina-
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