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Integration projects such as business intelligence efforts, data lakes, and master data initiatives, require a consistent holistic view of concepts such as Customer, Account, and Product.
Nonetheless, this view of concepts faces familiar objections.
Typified in Kant's and Mendelssohn's view of concepts, it was also reflected in scientific practice.
In an earlier version of this entry, we cited Millikan (2000) as an example of the abilities view of concepts.
For theorists who adopt the mental representation view of concepts, concepts are identified with these more basic representations.
However, according to Cummins (1989) Locke (who, of course, shares Prinz's empiricist/perceptual view of concepts) also held a covariational theory of representational content.
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The representation allows us to combine the classical view of concept acquisition with aspects of the probabilistic and exemplar views and to organize the database into the equivalents of "episodic" and "semantic" memory.
(This sort of richer view of concept possession is discussed, e.g., in Raz 2004, 4 7; Stravopoulos 2012, 78 79; Shapiro 2011, 16 22. It is perhaps also the sort of view presupposed by Hart).
Stepping back from the details of these three views, there is no reason, in principle, why the different views of concepts couldn't be combined in various ways.
Moreover, not only these same types of representational views of concepts, but also any theory that holds concepts to be Platonic Ideas, would hinder us in having intellectual acquaintance with extra-mental objects, Auriol's second explanatory requirement.
One question here is whether Leibniz and Kant agree sufficiently in their views of concepts for Kant's arguments to have any bite against the kind of view Leibniz expresses in the New Essays, a text that Kant read sometime after it was first available in 1765 (Vaihinger 1922, 2: 133, 414 and 428-9).
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