A Formal Representation of Affordances as Reciprocal Dispositions

Notwithstanding its centrality to agency and cognition, the concept of affordance is notoriously difficult to model computationally, partly owing to its conceptually multifaceted character. This paper elaborates on previous formalontological studies of disposition by proposing a theory of reciprocal dispositions, and formalizes affordances and effectivities as reciprocal dispositions, contributing to the development of an ontological module for generic affordance representation.

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