Full Idea
What concept grounding does for us is ensure that our concepts, like the results of our empirical tests, can be treated as a source of information about the independent world.
Gist of Idea
We can learn about the world by studying the grounding of our concepts
Source
Carrie Jenkins (Grounding Concepts [2008], 4.4)
Book Reference
Jenkins,Carrie: 'Grounding Concepts' [OUP 2008], p.135
A Reaction
Presumably we learn our concepts hand-in-hand with experience, so learning our concepts is itself learning about the world. Later checking of concepts and their relations largely confirms what we already knew?