ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book presents several new theoretical frameworks and empirical approaches to the study of conceptual behavior. These were introduced with the ultimate aim of developing a holistic and systematic theory of conceptual behavior as a basis for all of cognition. In addition, the book proposes a set of principles and several potential laws of conceptual behavior consistent with these principles. Categorical invariance, the key mathematical construct underlying all the proposed laws, was introduced by the author to overcome the limits of existing notions of invariance. The book is devoted to establish links between conceptual behavior and other cognitive capacities and constructs. It focuses on an indirect method for generating prototypes from ideotypes using representational information theory. The book introduces a functional representational theory of concepts that overcomes the limitations of classical Boolean representations.
