EdwinWenink

title	author	publisher
On the Heights of Despair	E. M. Cioran

0. "In illness, death is always already in life. Genuine ailment links us to metaphysical realities which the healthy, average man cannot understand. Young people talk of death as external to life. But when an illness hits them with full power, all the illusions and seductions of youth disappear. In this world,

EdwinWenink

Similarity as Transformation | Hahn, Chater, Richardson. 2003

Abstract

• Similarity is determined by the transformation distance between representations
  • Similar entities have representations that are easily transformed into each other
  • Dissimilar entities require many transformations
• Present three experiments on the influence of transformation distance on similarity
  • Versus: featural or spatial accounts of similarity
• Introduce transformation-based accounts of similarity

EdwinWenink

# Similarity as Transformation | Hahn, Chater, Richardson. 2003

## Abstract

- Similarity is determined by the *transformation distance* between representations
	- Similar entities have representations that are easily transformed into each other
	- Dissimilar entities require many transformations
- Present three experiments on the influence of transformation distance on similarity
	- Versus: featural or spatial accounts of similarity
- Introduce transformation-based accounts of similarity