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Transforming Temporal Knowledge: Conceptual Change between Event Concepts

Transforming Temporal Knowledge: Conceptual Change between Event Concepts This paper offers a preliminary analysis of conceptual change between event concepts. It begins with a brief review of the major findings of cognitive studies on event knowledge. The script model proposed by Schank and Abelson was the first attempt to represent event knowledge. Subsequent cognitive studies indicated that event knowledge is organized in the form of dimensional organizations in which temporally successive actions are related causally. This paper proposes a frame representation to capture and outline the internal structure of event concepts, in particular, their causal connections. The frame representation offers an effective method to analyze the relations between event concepts, and to expose the unique cognitive mechanisms behind conceptual change involved event concepts. Finally this paper shows that the frame representation of event concepts is instrumental to understanding an important historical episode of conceptual change in the context of nineteenth-century optics. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Perspectives on Science MIT Press

Transforming Temporal Knowledge: Conceptual Change between Event Concepts

Perspectives on Science , Volume 13 (1) – Mar 1, 2005

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MIT Press
Copyright
© 2005 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
ISSN
1063-6145
eISSN
1530-9274
DOI
10.1162/1063614053714108
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Abstract

This paper offers a preliminary analysis of conceptual change between event concepts. It begins with a brief review of the major findings of cognitive studies on event knowledge. The script model proposed by Schank and Abelson was the first attempt to represent event knowledge. Subsequent cognitive studies indicated that event knowledge is organized in the form of dimensional organizations in which temporally successive actions are related causally. This paper proposes a frame representation to capture and outline the internal structure of event concepts, in particular, their causal connections. The frame representation offers an effective method to analyze the relations between event concepts, and to expose the unique cognitive mechanisms behind conceptual change involved event concepts. Finally this paper shows that the frame representation of event concepts is instrumental to understanding an important historical episode of conceptual change in the context of nineteenth-century optics.

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Perspectives on ScienceMIT Press

Published: Mar 1, 2005

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