Algorithmic Aspects of Theory Blending [chapter]

Maricarmen Martinez, Ulf Krumnack, Alan Smaill, Tarek Richard Besold, Ahmed M. H. Abdel-Fattah, Martin Schmidt, Helmar Gust, Kai-Uwe Kühnberger, Markus Guhe, Alison Pease
2014 Lecture Notes in Computer Science  
In Cognitive Science, conceptual blending has been proposed as an important cognitive mechanism that facilitates the creation of new concepts and ideas by constrained combination of available knowledge. It thereby provides a possible theoretical foundation for modeling high-level cognitive faculties such as the ability to understand, learn, and create new concepts and theories. This paper describes a logic-based framework which allows a formal treatment of theory blending, discusses algorithmic
more » ... aspects of blending within the framework, and provides an illustrating worked out example from mathematics.
doi:10.1007/978-3-319-13770-4_16 fatcat:tkkfz3guxbeaplzmpj62i2sfie