Conceptual Model Theory of Human Understanding
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The Conceptual Model Theory of Human Understanding is a theory of knowledge, or epistemological theory, including theories of concepts, deduction, and induction, claimed to be historically distinct. The theory seeks to explain how the symbolic nature of language and concepts allows us to have understanding.
First presented in the book .Aspirations: The Rational Foundations of Achievement (1996), the theory was applied in the development of software KnowAllthat allowed reasoning from natural language (Worldfree Corporation).
The motivation for the development of the perspective was the recognition that research and development in the field of artificial intelligence was being founded on theories of knowledge originated hundreds of years ago, which failed to reflect modern neuroscientific discoveries and the information processing paradigm.
The theory also presents a new solution to the classical Problem of Induction, introduced by the philosopher David Hume.
