Publication details
Simple Concepts and Simple Expressions
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Year of publication | 2000 |
Type | Article in Proceedings |
Conference | The Logica Yearbook 1999 |
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Field | Philosophy and religion |
Keywords | concepts; constructions; transparent intensional logic; possible worlds; intensions; conceptual systems |
Description | Simple concepts are defined as closed constructions which do not contain other constructions. The hypothesis that any simple expressions express a simple concept is wrong. Many simple expressions of a natural language came into being as abbreviations, due to some definition so that the corresponding conceptis given by the (not simple!) definiens. |