Concepts without boundaries (1990)

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Categorization, perception, and language Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics

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Some concepts classify by setting boundaries but some do not. In the philosophical tradition, the former have received all the attention, and have lent a distinctive character to attempts to study classificatory concepts and their linguistic correlates. Within what I shall call the “classical picture”, a picture which dominates most thinking about thought and language, there is no room for the thesis I wish to put forward: that concepts can classify without setting boundaries.

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