As we know, Kant insists that the concept of duty cannot be in conflict with doing our duty or that ought implies can: "It is patently absurd, having granted this concept of duty its authority, to want to say that one nevertheless cannot do it.
Carnap granted the importance of this concept (especially in modern physical theories) but attempted, in increasingly refined and often revised forms, to define a concept of degree-of-confirmation that was purely logical.
A year later, in October 2002, a patent would be granted for the concept.
But there are some pretty stable elements of his ideology, if you can even grant him that concept.
Let us grant that the concept of conservativeness has been formulated in some nominalistically acceptable way.
Now taken for granted, such concepts were almost unheard of in 1964, when Mr. Fitch and the architect Charles Peterson founded a graduate program in restoration and preservation at Columbia University.
At present the work on this concept is being conducted under the International Scientific and Technical Center grant No. 548.
Unlike patents for new drug formulas, patents on software often effectively grant ownership of concepts, rather than tangible creations.
This approach did not necessarily invalidate the conclusions reached; but many valuable ideas then put forward as theories of architecture were only partial theories, in which it was taken for granted that theoretical concepts concerning construction and planning were dealt with in other texts.
In the first case (which will be called standard semantics), we are taking for granted certain mathematical concepts.
Perhaps there is only a terminological issue about which things ought to be granted the label "concepts".
