Similarity between nouns (concepts) was described by a distance function. Distances were then related to measurements on the concrete-abstract scale and to associations. Results were interpreted in terms of two aspects of the semantic space of words, intensionality and extensionality, the latter seeming a dominant basis for behavioral comparison of concepts.
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