Morendil comments on Concepts Don't Work That Way - Less Wrong

57 Post author: lukeprog 28 September 2011 02:01AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 27 September 2011 11:52:57PM 2 points [-]

Then, if I'm not mistaken, the point being made here is that our idea of beauty is not a single, specific concept, but a vague feeling that could correspond to any of myriad different concepts. Therefore, we can't give necessary and sufficient conditions for a thing to be beautiful—unless, as you mention, we determine which concept of beauty we're referring to.

(It sounds to me like "concept" means one thing when lukeprog says it and something else when you say it.)

Comment author: Morendil 28 September 2011 06:49:04AM 3 points [-]

All that may be true - my beef is that we don't get that from cognitive science! Plain old philosophy gets us there.