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Single Idea 17718
[filed under theme 18. Thought / D. Concepts / 2. Origin of Concepts / b. Empirical concepts
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Full Idea
Grounded concepts are like trustworthy on-board maps of the independent world.
Gist of Idea
Grounded concepts are trustworthy maps of the world
Source
Carrie Jenkins (Grounding Concepts [2008], Intro)
Book Ref
Jenkins,Carrie: 'Grounding Concepts' [OUP 2008], p.8
A Reaction
You'll probably need more than one concept for it to qualify as a 'map', but I like this idea a lot. The world, rather than we ourselves, creates our concepts. The opposite of the view of Geach in 'Mental Acts'.
The
17 ideas
from Carrie Jenkins
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17719
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Arithmetic concepts are indispensable because they accurately map the world
[Jenkins]
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17718
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Grounded concepts are trustworthy maps of the world
[Jenkins]
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17717
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Senses produce concepts that map the world, and arithmetic is known through these concepts
[Jenkins]
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17720
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There's essential, modal, explanatory, conceptual, metaphysical and constitutive dependence
[Jenkins, by PG]
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17723
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Knowledge is true belief which can be explained just by citing the proposition believed
[Jenkins]
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17724
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It is not easy to show that Hume's Principle is analytic or definitive in the required sense
[Jenkins]
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17725
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'Analytic' can be conceptual, or by meaning, or predicate inclusion, or definition...
[Jenkins]
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17727
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We can learn about the world by studying the grounding of our concepts
[Jenkins]
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17726
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Examining accurate, justified or grounded concepts brings understanding of the world
[Jenkins]
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17728
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The concepts we have to use for categorising are ones which map the real world well
[Jenkins]
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17729
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Examining concepts can recover information obtained through the senses
[Jenkins]
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17730
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Combining the concepts of negation and finiteness gives the concept of infinity
[Jenkins]
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17731
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Verificationism is better if it says meaningfulness needs concepts grounded in the senses
[Jenkins]
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17732
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Success semantics explains representation in terms of success in action
[Jenkins]
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17734
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It is not enough that intuition be reliable - we need to know why it is reliable
[Jenkins]
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17739
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The physical effect of world on brain explains the concepts we possess
[Jenkins]
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17740
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Instead of correspondence of proposition to fact, look at correspondence of its parts
[Jenkins]
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