OK, very good.
So that was the third theory.
Now I'm going to talk about the possible fourth theory and then do a wrap up and see if we could overcome
the problems related to each of the theories.
So is there a pluralism about concepts?
The fourth theory theory?
It's the conceptual atomism theory hold by such people like Jerry Fodor or Salt Kripke philosophers.
Very good.
We can look them up if you like.
So since the description seems so hard to to catch, maybe the concept is empty and instead is just
one.
A causal relation between the concept and its instance determines its reference.
So what do they mean with this?
So have this very simple example.
You have a couple of things like this and you probably all see which concepts I'm trying to talk about
here.
Some what they have in common, what three have in common is that all those five instances here are
related to the same concept.
So they are all in some way treats.
Right?
So concepts are primitive in that sense.
They have no structure at all.
But a causal relation between the concept in this instance is determined as reference.
OK, so that was conceptual Atomism as well, but were the 2500 years taken us then?
As I said, we still in 2014, actually the nature of concepts that structurally sound.
So there is no unified theory out there that everybody agrees on.
So this is a debate that is still going on.
So it's not just something that Plato and Aristotle thought about.
This is actually a lot of people are thinking about those types of things today.
And and the reason we do it is because they are very important.
They are the kind of the underlying meta model for a lot of science out there.
So maybe the solution is to things in theses, and that means that there is no one true structure of
a concept, but there might be different structures for different explanatory functions.
And as I said, there's a lot of stuff actually written about this still.
So here I have two large books with several different articles, all related to the nature of concepts.
So it's the concepts core readings by Eric Margolis and Stephen Lawrence.
And there's another big book of concepts by Gregory L. Murphy and both of our columns, just evidence
and what I've just said, that this is a debate that is still very much going on.
OK, a pluralism about concepts concept might have multiple parallel structures operating in our minds.
So that is what this kind of structure with theories is saying.
And this is called a dual theory.
And here we differentiate between ID procedure and core components.
So what do I mean with those two?
So the identification procedure that is very quick in this categorization that is going on in our heads
in a couple of microseconds maybe, and it's more or less based on this prototype the of seeing it that
you just see.
Well, what was that?
I'm not sure, but I think it was a car right by you don't know exactly which car it was.
You just think for the kind of the the first impressions you get of this is that it was a fast car that
just passed by.
Right.
And then you when you have a little bit more time over than the core component kicks in.
So the core component used uses more of the cognitive resources you have and the use when they are not
limited.
So then you will say that maybe that will support three, five, six Charolais built in 1956 and so
on and so on.
Maybe you have a lot of knowledge about this, then you're more, very more specific about this specific
instance and not just about the prototype, but it was just a fast car ride.
So that's the kind of the court where I mean, the core component and the core component is kind of
a combination of the classical theory and atomism theory.
Right.
So in this dual theory, it's kind of almost all of the theories comes in.
So both the prototype version and the theory theory, I should say, they are a little bit like and
the classical view on the atmosphere in the core component, OK, how we now solve the problem.
Maybe something tells me that is not the case.
It will probably keep cropping up.
Coming up, different theories about how we should think about the concept or concept.
And it's it is very important if you talk to any person, for example, working in artificial intelligence
or anything like that, this is the main real problem because we are trying to understand how humans
do this so we can maybe replicate that or make models about that and then implement them in different
kinds of solutions.
OK, good.
So that was the end of the lecture and that was actually kind of the first thing about concepts here.
So now we'll delve into a lot of other stuff related to the Philosophy of Mind section in the Origins
Triangle.
Good to see you there.