Conceptual Structures, Conceptual Abilities and Productivity of Cognitive Functioning: The Ontological Approach1

conceptual metaphor and the acquisition of english metaphorical competence by persian english majors: a cognitive linguistic approach

بنا براستدلال زبانشناسان شناختی ، اندیشه آدمی تا حدّ زیادی استعاری است: ما اندیشه ای را، و یا قلمرو مفهومی معیّنی را، بر حسب اندیشه و یا قلمرو مفهومی معیّن دیگری درک ویا تجربه می کنیم. موارد این نوع اندیشیدن ، که استعارات مفهومی خوانده می شوند، در زبان های گوناگون به صورت تعبیرات استعاری واقعیّت می یابند. به گمان بعضی از پزوهشگران زبان دوم، آموزش وفراگیری این گونه تعبیرات باید بخشی لازم از برنامه ه...

Cognitive Architectures for Conceptual Structures

The book Conceptual Structures: Information Processing in Mind and Machine surveyed the state of the art in artificial intelligence and cognitive science in the early 1980s and outlined a cognitive architecture as a foundation for further research and development. The basic ideas stimulated a broad range of research that built on and extended the original topics. This paper reviews that archite...

Ontological foundations for conceptual modelling

Conceptual Structures Represented by Conceptual Graphs and Formal Concept Analysis 1 Conceptual Structures in Knowledge Representation

Conceptual Graphs and Formal Concept Analysis have in common basic concerns: the focus on conceptual structures, the use of diagrams for supporting communication, the orientation byPeircès Prag-matism, and the aim of representing and processing knowledge. These concerns open rich possibilities of interplay and integration. We discuss the philosophical foundations of both disciplines, and analyz...

Conceptual Graphs For Representing Conceptual Structures

A conceptual graph (CG) is a graph representation for logic based on the semantic networks of artificial intelligence and the existential graphs of Charles Sanders Peirce. CG design principles emphasize the requirements for a cognitive representation: a smooth mapping to and from natural languages; an “iconic” structure for representing patterns of percepts in visual and tactile imagery; and co...