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| Triangulation: In science, triangulation is a method of determining the location of an object by measuring the angles between it and two other points of known location. - During learning, a shared situation is assumed, e.g. between mother, child and an object, with the mother intervening to correct the situation. See also Method, Measurements, Learning._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Peter Gärdenfors on Triangulation - Dictionary of Arguments
I 73 Triangulation/Language/Learning/Semantic domains/Cooperation/Gärdenfors: to share a semantic domain facilitates cooperation. New forms of cooperation are made possible when jointly oriented attention can be established. Anthropology: there is a great consensus that the human developed in extensive areas of open landscapes (Preuschoft & Witte, 1991, Hilton & Meldrum, 2004)(1)(2), where it was helpful to refer to absent objects. 1. Preuschoft, H., & Witte, H. (1991). Biomechanical reasons for the evolution of hominid body shape. In Y. Coppens & B. Senut (Eds.), Origine de la bipedie chez les hominides (pp. 55–79). Paris: Cahiers de Paleoanthropologie Editions du CNRS. 2. Hilton, C. E., & Meldrum, D. J. (2004). Striders, runners, and transporters. In D. J. Meldrum & C. E. Hilton (Eds.), From biped to strider: The emergence of modern human walking, running, and resource transport (pp. 1–8). New York: Kluwer Academic._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Gä I P. Gärdenfors The Geometry of Meaning Cambridge 2014 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-16