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In Cognitive Science, conceptual blending has been proposed as an important cognitive mechanism that facilitates the creation of new concepts and ideas by constrained combination of available knowledge. It thereby provides a possible theoretical foundation for modeling high-level cognitive faculties such as the ability to understand, learn, and create new concepts and theories. This paper describes a logic-based framework which allows a formal treatment of theory blending, discusses algorithmic aspects of blending within the framework, and provides an illustrating worked out example from mathematics.
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Martinez, M. et al. (2014). Algorithmic Aspects of Theory Blending. In: Aranda-Corral, G.A., Calmet, J., Martín-Mateos, F.J. (eds) Artificial Intelligence and Symbolic Computation. AISC 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8884. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13770-4_16
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