Wandering Significance: An Essay on Conceptual Behaviour

Contents......Page 10
Preface and Acknowledgments......Page 14
(i) Our topics introduced......Page 22
(ii) The classical picture of concepts......Page 25
(iii) Conceptual evaluation......Page 27
(iv) Science should be used but not mentioned......Page 34
(v) Ur-philosophical currents......Page 37
(vi) Semantic finality......Page 39
(vii) Lessons of applied mathematics......Page 47
(viii) Why study concepts?......Page 50
(ix) Mitigated skepticism......Page 52
(x) Exaggerated worries......Page 59
(xi) Our prospects......Page 64
(i) Ur-philosophy’s beckoning muse......Page 67
(ii) Objective extremism......Page 72
(iii) Tropospheric complacency......Page 75
(iv) Tools and tasks......Page 80
(v) Subjective extremism......Page 86
(vi) Amphibolic reveries......Page 95
(vii) Seasonality in conceptual evaluation......Page 105
(i) Under a predicate’s sheltering wing......Page 108
(ii) Classical gluing......Page 110
(iii) Conceptual directivities......Page 114
(iv) Custodians of the conceptual realm......Page 117
(v) Wandering significance......Page 123
(vi) Overloaded contents......Page 125
(vii) Core directivities......Page 133
(viii) Relieving conceptual strain......Page 142
(ix) Attribute and concept......Page 151
(x) Explanation and understanding......Page 157
Appendix: Chief theses of the classical framework......Page 160
(i) Strange latitudes......Page 168
(ii) Inferential overexuberance......Page 178
(iii) Salvation through syntax......Page 182
(iv) A home in axiomatics......Page 187
(v) Distributed normativity......Page 192
(vi) Theory facades......Page 198
(vii) Variable reduction......Page 205
(viii) A funny thing happened on the way to the formalism......Page 214
(ix) Helpful troublemakers......Page 224
(x) The vicissitudes of rule validity......Page 233
(i) Pre-pragmatist hunch......Page 244
(ii) Strands of practical advantage......Page 248
(iii) Linguistic engineering......Page 251
(iv) Pre-pragmatist prospects......Page 254
(v) Quine’s rejection of classical gluing......Page 257
(vi) The flight from intension......Page 261
(vii) Honorable intensions......Page 263
(viii) Ill-founded philosophical projects......Page 279
(ix) Fear of attribute naming......Page 283
(x) Naming attributes ain’t easy......Page 287
(xi) Ghost properties......Page 294
(xii) Hazy holism......Page 300
(i) Interfacial accommodation......Page 308
(ii) Representational personality......Page 310
(iii) Presented contents......Page 317
(iv) Intimations of intensionality......Page 320
(v) Unsuitable personalities......Page 329
(vi) Analytic prolongation......Page 333
(vii) The Stokes phenomenon......Page 340
(viii) Weight......Page 349
(ix) Hardness......Page 356
(x) Linguistic management......Page 366
(xi) Foundational looping......Page 374
(xii) Mechanical torsions......Page 376
(xiii) Beads on a wire......Page 390
(i) Atlases and facades......Page 398
(ii) Quantities and quasi-quantities......Page 404
(iii) The veil of predication......Page 411
(iv) Machinal ideas......Page 422
(v) Lifts and free assertion......Page 437
(vi) Evolutionary shaping......Page 442
(vii) Nostalgia for lost empire......Page 450
(viii) The contextual control of data......Page 454
(ix) A paradox of classical grasp......Page 466
(x) Redness......Page 475
(xi) Naturally evolved linguistic systems......Page 489
(i) The beckoning concept......Page 497
(ii) Semantic epiphany......Page 502
(iii) Intimations of intensionality......Page 509
(iv) Our spying attention......Page 518
(v) True thought rigorization......Page 523
(vi) Teenage victory......Page 530
(vii) Correlational pictures......Page 536
(viii) I heard the voice of an algorithm......Page 539
(ix) Putting a picture to it......Page 550
(x) Retooling at sea......Page 555
(xi) Semantic detoxification......Page 566
(xii) Through conceptual thick and thin......Page 573
(xiii) Design imperatives......Page 583
(i) The varieties of linguistic strategy......Page 588
(ii) Marching methods......Page 592
(iii) Algorithmic borrowing......Page 596
(iv) Struggling with a word......Page 604
(v) Newtonian counterfeits......Page 610
(i) Mitigated expectations......Page 620
(ii) Sublime imagination......Page 626
(iii) The philosophical investigation of concepts......Page 631
(iv) Pursuits of "truth"......Page 638
(v) A logical chicken or egg......Page 644
(vi) The critical role of "truth-condition"......Page 650
(vii) Understanding others......Page 659
(viii) The schedules of our time......Page 670
(ix) An isthmus of a middle state......Page 682
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