Geach's own first book, Mental Acts (1957), now a classic in the philosophy of psychology, argued that "acquiring a concept is a process of becoming able to do something" – not, as many philosophers since Descartes had held, a matter of having internal representations of external things, or undergoing inner experiences.
In response, a defender of SK may concede that there is a "training period" for acquiring a concept.
Indeed, it is typically assumed that a person acquires a concept from experience which already portends that acquisition depends on empirical knowledge.
Aquinas would no doubt say that such observation of the immediate functioning of a simple substance is necessary in order to acquire a concept of its substantial nature, and so its real definition.
She thus has acquired a new concept of phenomenal blueness.
have acquired a wholly new concept of popular science, and the training they have received will not soon be forgotten.
Thus, someone who learns from a book that kangaroos are marsupials does not acquire a new concept, but augments or modifies the concept he already has.
Yet when considering Burge's "preservative memory," we saw that Oscar could conceivably retain the water concept while acquiring an additional concept (even if he cannot discriminate between the two).
Generation of conceptual content through the execution of the heuristics to acquire a new concept by the reasoner, from a preexisting Conceptual Base.
Syntatic analysis of EXP, in order to define the gramatical structure of the NP; Generation of conceptual content through the execution of the heuristics to acquire a new concept by the reasoner, from a preexisting Conceptual Base.
During the last sixty years, the concept of information has acquired a strikingly prominent role in many parts of biology.
