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Full Idea
The notion of 'concept' ought to be eliminated from the theoretical vocabulary of psychology, and replaced by the notions of prototype, exemplar, and theory.
Gist of Idea
We should abandon 'concept', and just use 'prototype', 'exemplar' and 'theory'
Source
Edouard Machery (Doing Without Concepts [2009], 8)
Book Ref
Machery,Edouard: 'Doing Without Concepts' [OUP 2009], p.220
A Reaction
Machery's main thesis. I think similarly about 'property' in metaphysics. It embraces different ideas, and if we eliminated 'property' (and used predicate, class, fundamental power, complex power) we would do better. Psychologists have dropped 'memory'.