Fausto Carcassi
Biographic Data
| ID | 9496671 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fausto Carcassi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fausto |
| FAMILY NAME | Carcassi |
| SIGNATURE | CARCASSI F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6843-1737 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Assertion, denial, and the evolution of Boolean operators
Given current data, only a few binary Boolean operators are expressed in lexically simple fashion in the world's languages: and, or, nor . These do not occur in every combination, for example, nor is not observed by itself. To explain these cross‐linguistic patterns, we propose an encoding of Boolean operators as update procedures to accept or reject information in a context. We define a measure of conceptual simplicity for such updates, on which…
The Boolean Language of Thought is recoverable from learning data
Neural Networks Track the Logical Complexity of Boolean Concepts
The language of thought hypothesis and connectionism provide two main accounts of category acquisition in the cognitive sciences. However, it is unclear to what extent their predictions agree. In this article, we tackle this problem by comparing the two accounts with respect to a common set of predictions about the effort required to acquire categories. We find that the two accounts produce similar predictions in the domain of Boolean categorizat…
An alternatives account of 'most’ and 'more than half’
While ‘most’ and ‘more than half’ are generally assumed to be truth-conditionally equivalent, the former is usually interpreted as conveying greater proportions than the latter. Previous work has attempted to explain this difference in terms of pragmatic strengthening or variation in meanings. In this paper, we propose a novel explanation that keeps the truth-conditions equivalence. We argue that the difference in typical sets between the two exp…
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An alternatives account of 'most’ and 'more than half’
While ‘most’ and ‘more than half’ are generally assumed to be truth-conditionally equivalent, the former is usually interpreted as conveying greater proportions than the latter. Previous work has attempted to explain this difference in terms of pragmatic strengthening or variation in meanings. In this paper, we propose a novel explanation that keeps the truth-conditions equivalence. We argue that the difference in typical sets between the two exp…
Neural Networks Track the Logical Complexity of Boolean Concepts
The language of thought hypothesis and connectionism provide two main accounts of category acquisition in the cognitive sciences. However, it is unclear to what extent their predictions agree. In this article, we tackle this problem by comparing the two accounts with respect to a common set of predictions about the effort required to acquire categories. We find that the two accounts produce similar predictions in the domain of Boolean categorizat…
Assertion, denial, and the evolution of Boolean operators
Given current data, only a few binary Boolean operators are expressed in lexically simple fashion in the world's languages: and, or, nor . These do not occur in every combination, for example, nor is not observed by itself. To explain these cross‐linguistic patterns, we propose an encoding of Boolean operators as update procedures to accept or reject information in a context. We define a measure of conceptual simplicity for such updates, on which…
The Boolean Language of Thought is recoverable from learning data
Computer Science (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Cognitive psychology (3 works) · Natural language processing (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Cognition (2 works) · Cognitive science (2 works) · Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms (2 works) · Machine Learning in Bioinformatics (2 works) · Mathematics (2 works)