Sentence examples for conceptual capacities from inspiring English sources

Thus, a creature that lacks conceptual capacities cannot be properly attributed states with conceptual contents.

It may depend, for example, on whether she has the conceptual capacities we expect a moral agent to exercise.

My ability to perceive and discriminate the determinate shades and shapes that I do outstrips my conceptual capacities.

She might argue for the distinction by pointing out that the functional role of belief depends on an organism's conceptual capacities and the functional role of perception does not depend on its conceptual capacities (since, arguably, an organism's perceptual discriminations can outstrip its conceptual capacities).

There are several problems with this view and research is strong in suggesting that conceptual capacities incorporate and are structured in terms of patterns of bodily activity.

Nonetheless, the general idea that there might be ways of representing the world independent of the thinker's conceptual capacities has inspired other philosophers.

First, for a capacity operative in perception to count as a genuine conceptual capacity it must be possible for that same capacity to be employed in thought.

Our conceptual capacity is limited to the innate ideas that God has implanted in us, and these reflect the actual truths that he created.

As McDowell says, the capacity for employing demonstrative concepts in perception is a recognitional capacity (McDowell 1994a p. 57, Brewer 1999 also holds that a conceptual capacity must be available in the absence of the sample to which it was initially applied).

This category would also include the child with the conceptual capacity to grasp the issues involved, but who is still unaware of those issues.

This test allows assessing the conceptual capacity to establish relationships between geometrical figures in each item (spatial, numeric and geometric), perceptual abilities, visuo-spatial reasoning and intellectual non-verbal capacity.