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Order Effects in Dynamic Semantics
Author(s) -
Graben Peter beim
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
topics in cognitive science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.191
H-Index - 56
eISSN - 1756-8765
pISSN - 1756-8757
DOI - 10.1111/tops.12063
Subject(s) - semantics (computer science) , cognition , computer science , hilbert space , cognitive science , order (exchange) , belief revision , artificial intelligence , theoretical computer science , mathematics , programming language , psychology , pure mathematics , finance , neuroscience , economics
In their target article, Wang and Busemeyer (2013) discuss question order effects in terms of incompatible projectors on a Hilbert space. In a similar vein, Blutner recently presented an orthoalgebraic query language essentially relying on dynamic update semantics. Here, I shall comment on some interesting analogies between the different variants of dynamic semantics and generalized quantum theory to illustrate other kinds of order effects in human cognition, such as belief revision, the resolution of anaphors, and default reasoning that result from the crucial non‐commutativity of mental operations upon the belief state of a cognitive agent.