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To solve this problem of "aboutness" Dignāga had devised the theory of concepts, i.e., apoha ("exclusions").
Boolos's suggestion, however, is one which would require Frege to abandon his realist theory of concepts.
One such argument centers around the failures of the classical theory of concepts.
This included developing a theory of concepts and a theory of judgment.
Not every theory of concepts takes a stand on each of the five, but viewed collectively these issues show why the theory of concepts has been such a rich and lively topic in recent years.
Another and currently more popular suggestion is that cores are best understood in terms of the theory theory of concepts.
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Barsalou (2012) has proposed a theory of concept formation that is consistent with this view.
The diagnosis was that traditional logic is insufficient and the theory of concept-formation needs to be sharpened.
The Nyāya thus use their theory of memory (initial experience causing dispositional trace causing memory event) as a theory of concept-possession.
This response to the explanationist can be elaborated in the context of a theory of concept possession according to which a necessary condition of the genuine possession of a given concept (of the sort of primary interest in philosophical investigation) is the reliability of one's intuitions regarding hypothetical cases.
In her Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology, Rand presented a theory of concept formation and rejected the analytic synthetic dichotomy.
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