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TY - GEN ID - cogprints2139 UR - http://cogprints.org/2139/ A1 - Gabora, Liane A1 - Aerts, Diederik Y1 - 2002/// N2 - To cope with problems arising in the description of (1) contextual interactions, and (2) the generation of new states with new properties when quantum entities become entangled, the mathematics of quantum mechanics was developed. Similar problems arise with concepts. We use a generalization of standard quantum mechanics, the mathematical lattice theoretic formalism, to develop a formal description of the contextual manner in which concepts are evoked, used, and combined to generate meaning. PB - American Association for Artificial Intelligence KW - collapse KW - concept KW - context KW - creativity KW - exemplar KW - guppy effect KW - impossibilist creativity KW - lattice formalism KW - pet fish problem KW - prototype KW - quantum mechanics KW - representation KW - superposition TI - Contextualizing Concepts SP - 148 AV - public EP - 152 ER -