OK, let's continue.
So now we are in the first lecture about concepts, so that's in the first corner of the of the Richard
Triangle we talked about.
But this is going to be an overview of the different types of theories that we have about concepts.
So why is the concept concept so hard to define?
What is it about it?
And maybe you see that already in how I spell out this sentence.
So it's you directly go to a meta level.
So if you have to have a concept about the concept, then you must have a concept about the concept
first and so on and so on.
But anyway, as I said, so we have this Aldrich's triangle and we have the notion of objects out in
the world.
We have the notion about what is going on in our heads and we have our language.
So using our language to express our concepts about our real world object.
Right.
And now talking about this first upper corner
on a very brief theoretical level, you can say that concept theoretically are the constituents of our
thoughts.
They are the way they are, the building blocks that we build up our thoughts with.
But then he has to count on the catch.
Some of the deepest divides in contemporary philosophy concerns the limits of empirical inquiry, the
status of conceptual analysis and the nature of philosophy itself.
And concepts are right in the center of those disputes or these disputes.
So the dispute about basically anything in philosophy and therefore also a lot of science and so on
relates back to what we think is about.
So basically, there's four theories about what a concept is, so it's the classical theory has been
around for maybe 2500 years.
And Plato, there's the prototype theory and there's the theory theory, strangely, maybe.
And those are the conceptual anatomies theory.
And I will be going through each of the four theories.
Now, the three first of them will be three separate lectures and then there will be a fourth lecture.
Will we go into both the conceptual atomism and also then wrap up all the four theories and have an
analysis about the four theories?
So that is what we're going to do now.
Good to see you in that first action.
Thank.