Unphilosophical Introduction: What Concepts Have to Be
Adequacy conditions on a theory of concepts: Concepts are mental particulars; they function as perceptual and cognitive categories; they are compositional; many of them are learned; they are typically public (i.e. shared by many minds). Satisfying the publicity condition presupposes a notion of conceptual identity (mere similarity won’t do).
Keywords: compositionality, concepts, identity, mental particulars, publicity
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