Concepts as hyperintensional objects
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https://doi.org/10.12775/LLP.2014.003Keywords
constructions, TIL, ontological definition, meaning, denotation, hierarchy of types (simple, ramified), hyperintensionalAbstract
The author defends the view that the notion of concept, if used in the logical (not cognitivist) tradition, should be explicated procedurally (i.e., not set-theoretically). He argues that Tichý’s Transparent Intensional Logic is an apt tool for such an explication and derives the respective definition. Some consequences of this definition concern the notions of emptiness, simple concepts, empirical concepts and algorithmic concepts.References
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