Qualitative Representations: How People Reason and Learn about the Continuous World (The MIT Press)

Synopsis

Introduction And Preliminaries -- Introduction -- Representation -- Reasoning -- Analogy -- Dynamics -- Quantity -- Relationships Between Quantities -- Qualitative Process Theory -- Examples Using Qp Theory -- Causality -- Qualitative Simulation And Reasoning About Change -- Modeling -- Analogy In Dynamics -- Dynamics In Language -- Space -- Qualitative Spatial Reasoning: A Theoretical Framework -- Qualitative Spatial Calculi -- Understanding Sketches And Diagrams -- Learning And Reasoning -- Learning And Conceptual Change -- Commonsense Reasoning -- Expert Reasoning -- Summary And New Directions -- Summary -- New Directions -- Bibliography -- Notes -- Index. Kenneth D. Forbus. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.