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Peirce (CP 2.753) suggests that humans possess an inherited notion of space, which amongst other notions allows them to adapt to the environment. This paper discusses a conceptual graph approach to defining such spatial notions (i.e. spatial universals) as a finite set of canonical graphs and suggests its use to derive a potentially infinite number of canonical graphs. Our approach is illustrated by a bilingual example.
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Brennan, J. (1999). Spatial Universals as the Human Spatial Notion. In: Tepfenhart, W.M., Cyre, W. (eds) Conceptual Structures: Standards and Practices. ICCS 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1640. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48659-3_4
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