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OK, let's continue.

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So now we are in the first lecture about concepts, so that's in the first corner of the of the Richard

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Triangle we talked about.

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But this is going to be an overview of the different types of theories that we have about concepts.

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So why is the concept concept so hard to define?

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What is it about it?

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And maybe you see that already in how I spell out this sentence.

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So it's you directly go to a meta level.

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So if you have to have a concept about the concept, then you must have a concept about the concept

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first and so on and so on.

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But anyway, as I said, so we have this Aldrich's triangle and we have the notion of objects out in

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the world.

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We have the notion about what is going on in our heads and we have our language.

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So using our language to express our concepts about our real world object.

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Right.

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And now talking about this first upper corner

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on a very brief theoretical level, you can say that concept theoretically are the constituents of our

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thoughts.

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They are the way they are, the building blocks that we build up our thoughts with.

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But then he has to count on the catch.

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Some of the deepest divides in contemporary philosophy concerns the limits of empirical inquiry, the

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status of conceptual analysis and the nature of philosophy itself.

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And concepts are right in the center of those disputes or these disputes.

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So the dispute about basically anything in philosophy and therefore also a lot of science and so on

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relates back to what we think is about.

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So basically, there's four theories about what a concept is, so it's the classical theory has been

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around for maybe 2500 years.

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And Plato, there's the prototype theory and there's the theory theory, strangely, maybe.

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And those are the conceptual anatomies theory.

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And I will be going through each of the four theories.

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Now, the three first of them will be three separate lectures and then there will be a fourth lecture.

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Will we go into both the conceptual atomism and also then wrap up all the four theories and have an

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analysis about the four theories?

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So that is what we're going to do now.

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Good to see you in that first action.

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Thank.