Rationale and maxims in the study of concepts

Noûs 39 (1):167-78 (2005)
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Is there any good reason for thinking that a concept is individuated by the condition for a thinker to possess it? Why is that approach superior to alternative accounts of the individuation of concepts? These are amongst the fundamental questions raised by Wayne Davis.

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Logical investigations.Edmund Husserl - 2000 - New York: Routledge. Edited by Dermot Moran.
The realm of reason.Christopher Peacocke - 2004 - New York: Oxford University Press.

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