Varieties of Natural Concepts

IF 0.5 4区哲学 0 PHILOSOPHY

PHILOSOPHIA Pub Date : 2024-07-11 DOI:10.1007/s11406-024-00759-9

James A. Hampton

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Abstract

The concepts to be considered in this chapter are those that occur in everyday common human thought and language – the “natural history” of concepts in use. While many may appear to be constituted by similarity relations, which make them suitable for modelling in conceptual spaces for example, other concepts in everyday use may be differently constituted. These concepts include abstract concepts, essentialist kinds, natural kinds, and logical or mathematical concepts. I discuss the different sources, uses and epistemological bases of these different forms of concept, and propose a three-level hierarchy of concepts based on their sources of validation.

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自然概念的多样性

本章要讨论的概念是那些出现在人类日常思维和语言中的概念--即概念使用的 "自然史"。虽然许多概念似乎是由相似性关系构成的，这使它们适合在概念空间等中建模，但日常使用的其他概念可能是由不同的关系构成的。这些概念包括抽象概念、本质主义种类、自然种类以及逻辑或数学概念。我将讨论这些不同形式的概念的不同来源、用途和认识论基础，并根据其验证来源提出一个三级概念等级体系。

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PHILOSOPHIA PHILOSOPHY-

CiteScore

0.90

自引率

20.00%

发文量

141

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