Southern Journal of Philosophy 45 (3):413-434 (2007)
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Conceptual atomism is the view according to which most lexical concepts lack ‘internal’ or constituent structure. To date, it has not received much attention from philosophers and psychologists. A centralreason is that it is thought to be an implausible theory of concepts, resulting in untenable implications. The main objective of this paper is to present conceptual atomism as a viable alternative, with a view toachieving two aims: the first, to characterize and to elucidate conceptual atomism; and the second, to dispel some misconceptions associated with it. My aim is to show that the prospect of conceptualatomism is a promising one
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Keywords | Analytic Philosophy Contemporary Philosophy General Interest |
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ISBN(s) | 0038-4283 |
DOI | 10.1111/j.2041-6962.2007.tb00058.x |
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