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Single Idea 12584

[filed under theme 18. Thought / D. Concepts / 4. Structure of Concepts / b. Analysis of concepts ]

Full Idea

At some point a good account of conceptual mastery must tie the mastery to abilities and relations that do not require conceptualization by the thinker.

Gist of Idea

An analysis of concepts must link them to something unconceptualized

Source

Christopher Peacocke (A Study of Concepts [1992], 5.3)

Book Ref

Peacocke,Christopher: 'A Study of Concepts' [MIT 1999], p.135


A Reaction

This obviously implies a physicalist commitment. Peacocke seeks, as so many do these days in philosophy of maths, to combine this commitment with some sort of Fregean "platonism without tears" (p.101). I don't buy it.