Re: "What's Good For the Geese?" (July 27) : Whatever happened to the concept of kinder and gentler?
In contrast to many earlier concepts of this kind the present approach includes arbitrarily large deformations.
At the same time, from what he says elsewhere about signification and the way we think, it is not unreasonable to surmise that he also thinks of categories as concepts of some kind.
Against such externalist accounts, Thomasson (2007) argued that artifactual terms cannot refer to artifactual kinds independently of all beliefs and concepts about the nature of the kind, for the concept of the kind's creator(s) is constitutive of the nature of the kind.
They were a little older than my parents, the rare neighborhood couple with no kids, possessing no concept of the kinds of things children might like.
Let's first talk about how the term "affordable housing" is defined and whether it jives with our concept of the kinds of places New Yorkers can actually afford to live in.
Emphasizes the interdisciplinary aspects of these core concepts, the kinds of approaches and modes of thinking common to all of the disciplines, and the technological developments underpinning current advances.
On the other hand, all of them were very sensitive to foundational issues understood in a broad sense, including the choice of basic concepts, the kinds of reasoning to be used, and the presuppositions build into them.
Concepts of this last kind are often referred to as sortal concepts.
It is concepts of this latter kind that are truly untestable: and what else is faith about, after all?
