<center><p><b><font size="+2">Contextualizing Concepts</font></b>
</p><p><b><font face="Times"><font size="-1">Liane Gabora and Diederik Aerts</font></font></b>
<br><font face="Times"><font size="-1">Center Leo Apostel for Interdisciplinary
Studies (CLEA)</font></font>
<br><font face="Times"><font size="-1">Free University of Brussels (VUB)</font></font>
<br><font face="Times"><font size="-1">Krijgskundestraat 33, Brussels</font></font>
<br><font face="Times"><font size="-1">B1160, Belgium, EUROPE</font></font>
<br><font face="Times"><font size="-1"><a href="mailto:lgabora@vub.ac.be">lgabora@vub.ac.be</a>
, <a href="mailto:lgabora@vub.ac.be">diraerts@vub.ac.be</a></font></font>
<br><font face="Times"><font size="-1"><a href="http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/Gabora/">http://www.vub.ac.be/CLEA/liane/</a>
, <a href="http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/Gabora/">http://www.vub.ac.be/CLEA/aerts/</a></font></font></p></center>
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</p><p><font size="-1"><b>ABSTRACT</b>: 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.</font>
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