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Single Idea 16365
[filed under theme 18. Thought / D. Concepts / 1. Concepts / a. Nature of concepts
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Full Idea
I want mental files (properly speaking) to serve as individual concepts, i.e. thought constituents.
Gist of Idea
Mental files are individual concepts (thought constituents)
Source
François Recanati (Mental Files [2012], 5.3)
Book Ref
Recanati,François: 'Mental Files' [OUP 2012], p.64
A Reaction
This is why the concept of mental files is so neat - it gives you a theory of reference and a theory of concepts. I love the files approach because it precisely fits my own introspective experiences. Hope I'm not odd in that way.
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[general ideas about concepts]:
20804
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Concepts are intellectual phantasms
[Stoic school, by Ps-Plutarch]
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12911
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Concepts are what unite a proposition
[Leibniz]
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17616
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind
[Kant]
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5553
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Either experience creates concepts, or concepts make experience possible
[Kant]
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5593
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Reason generates no concepts, but frees them from their link to experience in the understanding
[Kant]
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15607
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We don't think with concepts - we think the concepts
[Hegel]
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15610
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Active thought about objects produces the universal, which is what is true and essential of it
[Hegel]
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20953
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Every concept depends on the counter-concepts of what it is not
[Hegel, by Bowie]
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8715
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Infinities expand the bounds of the conceivable; we explore concepts to explore conceivability
[Cantor, by Friend]
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23189
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Concepts are rough groups of simultaneous sensations
[Nietzsche]
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23192
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Concepts don’t match one thing, but many things a little bit
[Nietzsche]
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9870
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Early Frege takes the extensions of concepts for granted
[Frege, by Dummett]
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5384
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A universal of which we are aware is called a 'concept'
[Russell]
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The Generality Constraint says if you can think a predicate you can apply it to anything
[Evans]
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8245
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The logical attitude tries to turn concepts into functions, when they are really forms or forces
[Deleuze/Guattari]
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13865
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'Sortal' concepts show kinds, use indefinite articles, and require grasping identities
[Wright,C]
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A concept is only a sortal if it gives genuine identity
[Wright,C]
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A concept is a way of thinking of things or kinds, whether or not they exist
[Lowe]
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10344
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Our experience may be conceptual, but surely not the world itself?
[Kusch]
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10110
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Corresponding to every concept there is a class (some of them sets)
[George/Velleman]
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17980
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The main theories of concepts are exemplar, prototype and knowledge
[Murphy]
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16365
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Mental files are individual concepts (thought constituents)
[Recanati]
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8688
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Concepts can be presented extensionally (as objects) or intensionally (as a characterization)
[Friend]
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19088
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For pragmatists a concept means its consequences
[Macbeth]
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11120
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Concepts are either representations, or abilities, or Fregean senses
[Margolis/Laurence]
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Concepts for categorisation and for induction may be quite different
[Machery]
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18588
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Concept theories aim at their knowledge, processes, format, acquisition, and location
[Machery]
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18611
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We should abandon 'concept', and just use 'prototype', 'exemplar' and 'theory'
[Machery]
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