3. Conceptual spaces as a semantic framework
A conceptual space consists of a number of quality dimensions. Examples
of quality dimensions are temperature, weight, brightness, pitch,
and force, as well as the three ordinary spatial dimensions of height,
width, and depth. Some quality dimensions are of an abstract nonsensory
character. In Gärdenfors (2014), I argue that force dimensions
are essential for the analysis of actions and events and thereby for the
semantics of verbs.