Sentence examples for kind concept from inspiring English sources

Such essential properties of kinds are features, therefore, that may be unknown even to competent users of a relevant kind concept.

This view hypothesizes that possession of a (non-empty) kind concept requires the ability to ostend or demonstratively identify instances of the kind by perceptual means (Brewer 1999; 2000a; 2000a).

We may just shrug our shoulders and say 'This is boring', and soon forget about it or, if the time lag wasn't too long, we might use the minimal information we get from our slow-speed conversation to invent what we think they're like and invent a kind concept of what they're after".

This is a first-of-its kind concept in the U.S., and with hummus so ubiquitous it is a wonder that there aren't already a dozen or so in America.

If so, then we can have natural kind concepts that do not have an environmental component.

This leads to an change in the extensions of the relevant kind concepts.

The argument just discussed aims to show that some beliefs involving natural kind concepts depend on the identity of certain physical substances in our environment.

For example, in response to Putnam, Segal points out that we have some empty natural kind concepts — that is, we have concepts which we intend to be natural kind concepts, but which in fact do not succeed in referring to a real kind.

An equivalence relation holding between things of one kind (concepts in Frege's case) is used to define or 'construct' things of another kind (numbers in Frege's case).

Further, it should be kept in mind that many think that Putnam (1975) has shown that the contents of natural kind concepts do not supervene on just what is "in the head".

Burge makes use of similar arguments to show that social institutions also play a role in determining the contents of some beliefs and thoughts, including those that do not involve natural kind concepts.