"What if...": The Use of Conceptual Simulations in Scientific Reasoning.
Susan Bell TrickettJ. Gregory TraftonPublished in: Cogn. Sci. (2007)
Keyphrases
- scientific discovery
- conceptual knowledge
- reasoning process
- knowledge representation
- reasoning tasks
- knowledge structures
- diagrammatic reasoning
- data mining
- conceptual representation
- reasoning systems
- computational properties
- structural analysis
- qualitative reasoning
- procedural knowledge
- data sets
- simulation model
- numerical simulations
- digital libraries
- knowledge base
- automated reasoning
- meta level
- probabilistic reasoning
- uncertain information
- description logics
- conceptual understanding
- data model
- learning algorithm
- scientific disciplines
- databases