Concepts are worth looking at, from where do they derive?
Let us take the stock example - the concept BACHELOR, which is traditionally said to have the constituents UNMARRIED and MAN.
If the example is taken at face value, the idea is that something falls under BACHELOR if it is an unmarried man and only if it is an unmarried man. According to the classical theory, lexical concepts generally will exhibit this same sort of definitional structure.
But endeavour to do the same with concepts such as: TRUTH, GOODNESS, FREEDOM, and JUSTICE.
And we must enter into a kind of definitional ad infinitum regress of what these concepts are.
Let us take the stock example - the concept BACHELOR, which is traditionally said to have the constituents UNMARRIED and MAN.
If the example is taken at face value, the idea is that something falls under BACHELOR if it is an unmarried man and only if it is an unmarried man. According to the classical theory, lexical concepts generally will exhibit this same sort of definitional structure.
But endeavour to do the same with concepts such as: TRUTH, GOODNESS, FREEDOM, and JUSTICE.
And we must enter into a kind of definitional ad infinitum regress of what these concepts are.
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