# Qualitative Representations

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- Book: [Qualitative Representations](https://www.bookquiver.com/kenneth-d-forbus/qualitative-representations) ([Qualitative Representations.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/kenneth-d-forbus/qualitative-representations.md))
- Authors: [Kenneth D. Forbus](https://www.bookquiver.com/kenneth-d-forbus)
- Publisher: the_mit_press
- ISBN: 978-02-6205-576-5
- Pages: 440
- Published: 2025-10-28
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

An argument that qualitative representations—symbolic representations that carve continuous phenomena into meaningful units—are central to human cognition. In this book, Kenneth Forbus proposes...