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Modeling diachronic changes in structuralism and conceptual spaces

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Summary, in English

Abstract in Undetermined
Our aim in this article is to show how the theory of conceptual spaces can be useful in describing diachronic changes to conceptual frameworks, and thus useful in understanding conceptual change in the empirical sciences. We also compare the conceptual space approach to Moulines's typology of intertheoretical relations in the structuralist tradition. Unlike structuralist reconstructions, those based on conceptual spaces yield a natural way of modeling the changes of a conceptual framework, including noncumulative changes, by tracing the changes to the dimensions that reconstitute a conceptual framework. As a consequence, the incommensurability of empirical theories need not be viewed as a matter of conceptual representation.

Department/s

Publishing year

2014

Language

English

Pages

1547-1561

Publication/Series

Erkenntnis

Volume

79

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Springer

Topic

  • General Language Studies and Linguistics
  • Learning

Status

Published

Project

  • Thinking in Time: Cognition, Communication and Learning

Research group

  • Lund University Information Quality Research Group (LUIQ)

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1572-8420