Abstract
How we categorize certain objects depends on the processes they afford: something is a vehicle because it affords transportation, a house because it offers shelter or a watercourse because water can flow in it. The hypothesis explored here is that image schemas (such as LINK, CONTAINER, SUPPORT, and PATH) capture abstractions that are essential to model affordances and, by implication, categories. To test the idea, I develop an algebraic theory formalizing image schemas and accounting for the role of affordances in categorizing spatial entities. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.
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Kuhn, W. (2007). An image-schematic account of spatial categories. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 4736 LNCS, pp. 152–168). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74788-8_10
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