As part of this process she comes to acquire the concept of the good.
Geach criticised what he called abstractionism, the view that we acquire the concept of red, say, from repeated experiences of red.
Much of learning and reasoning occurs in pedagogical situations--situations in which a person who knows a concept chooses examples for the purpose of helping a learner acquire the concept.
The system was able to acquire the concept of counting, dividing, and then taking the remainder, by autonomously evolving a set of string-editing rules along with their appropriate weights to solve the difficult problem.
Thus, there is empirical evidence from developmental psychology that children acquire the concept of desire prior to acquiring that of belief (Wellman 1993).
If so, black hearts didn't look like black hearts until repeated exposures somehow allowed the subjects to acquire the concept of a black heart.
These concepts differ from the perceptual 'ways' of representing the shape (or the interval or the dot-arrangement), according to Peacocke, in that the perceptual 'ways' make it possible to acquire the concepts, and so cannot be identical with them.
That suggests that if Oscar has acquired the concept, (4) must be true.
The Guggenheim acquired the concept for the installation in 1992 along with many other Minimal, Post-Minimal, and Conceptual artworks in the collection of Giuseppe Panza di Biumo, whoever that is.
If so, it would seem more simple and direct to allow some role to Lockean ostension to experience or some other form of direct reference in our acquiring the concept of pleasure.
By acquiring these concepts she acquires the capacity to ask new questions, and to form new (eventually false) hypotheses (e.g. about the appearance of the sky to normal perceivers).
