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| Axiomatics of Spatial Concepts |
| Project description |
| The investigation of spatial concepts is a central part of the
research on spatial cognition. One aspect of its fundamental role is that the lack
of a clear specification of the concepts the research is based on is a prevalent
problem for interpreting specific empirical results and communicating across
research groups. The project on Formal Specification of Spatial Concepts and Spatial
Structures attacks this problem by investigating the different options of specifying
spatial concepts by formal means. The study of concept systems focusses on the
semantic interrelations between the embedded concepts. The axiomatic method is the
methodological background for the formal characterizations. The goal is a systematic
formalization of inventories of spatial concepts that serve as a basis to describe
the phenomena of spatial cognition and the results of empirical investigations in
this field. The empirical basis of the research is the semantics of natural language
expressions relating to space. Besides the conception of the structure of space the
investigations concern aspects of the spatial structure of other domains that are
reflected by the applicability of spatial language in these domains. |
| Duration |
| since 6/1995 |
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