Analysis, Explication, and the Nature of Concepts

Frauke Albersmeier

Analysis, Explication, and the Nature of Concepts

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Frauke Albersmeier Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf

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Pages:: 180–201

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.30965/9783957437310_012

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What does the way we clarify and revise concepts reveal about the nature of concepts? This paper investigates the ontological commitments of conceptual analysis and explication regarding their supposed subject matter–concepts. It demonstrates the benefits of a cognitivist account of concepts, according to which they are not items on which the subject operates cognitively, but rather ways in which the subject operates. The proposed view helps to handle alternating references to ‘concepts’ and ‘terms’ in instructions on analysis and explication. Furthermore, its virtue lies not in the capacity to render concepts ‘shareable’ but in its ontological parsimony.

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Analysis and Explication in 20th Century Philosophy

Series: Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy / Philosophiegeschichte und logische Analyse, Volume: 22

E-Book ISBN:: 9783957437310

Publisher:: Brill | mentis

Print Publication Date:: 27 Jan 2020

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  - 19th & 20th Century Philosophy

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