A formal cognitive model of mathematical metaphors

Markus Guhe, Alan Smaill, Alison Pease

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Abstract

Starting from the observation by Lakoff and Núñez (2000) that the process for mathematical discoveries is essentially one of creating metaphors, we show how Information Flow theory (Barwise & Seligman, 1997) can be used to formalise the basic metaphors for arithmetic that ground the basic concepts in the human embodied nature.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationKI 2009: Advances in Artificial Intelligence
Subtitle of host publication32nd Annual German Conference on AI, Paderborn, Germany, September 15-18, 2009. Proceedings
PublisherSpringer
Pages323-330
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-642-04617-9
ISBN (Print)978-3-642-04616-2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 Sept 2009

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science
Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg
ISSN (Print)5803
ISSN (Electronic)0302-9743

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