Knowledge Representation and Metaphor

An inter-disciplinary journey from metaphor and language philosophy to recent issues and techniques in artificial intelligence. Conceptions of knowledge representation have been dominated by a tradition that bases language on logic, portraying it as essentially literal and truth-functional. The author confronts this view, arguing that the cognitive mechanisms involved in metaphor provide a better model for structuring knowledge than that of first-order logic, presenting the Dynamic Type Hierarchy theory as an entirely new approach to metaphor, language and knowledge representation.Way, Eileen C. is the author of 'Knowledge Representation and Metaphor' with ISBN 9781871516395 and ISBN 1871516390.