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I've done a lot of reading and taken a lot of notes. Now, on this page, I want to start pulling out concepts that I want to think about. I can start them on this page and then if they get rich enough they can move out to their own page.

Concept/Category

Aristotle - argues that everything could be fit into a strict logical hierarchy and that objects have essential and accidental properties.

Kant - argues that are born with built in mental categories and that are minds actively shape our experience of reality.
Wittgenstein argues that there are no perfect definitions and that it is impossible to rigidly delineate a category such as games.
Vygotsky argues that concepts are socially and culturally constructed and that we learn to see the world in the ways that our culture has agree it is.
Eleanor Rosch in the 1970s argues that categories are based around a kind of mental average or prototype
Eco contrasted a hierarchical "dictionary" vision of categories and a boundless network of categories that he sees as a rhizome - a tangled underground root system
- Cognitive types are mental blueprints for things like "dog". A CT is a multimodal, sensory-motor schema, a fluid set of neuro-cognitive "recognition instructions" built from every direct or indirect encounter you have ever had with a dog a vast array of experience that makes the concept live in you.
- Nuclear content is the minimal core public version of the concept that allows us to discuss dogs - "They are furry animals with four legs and a tail that go woof".
- Molar content is the totality of society's knowledge of the concept.

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+I've done a lot of reading and taken a lot of notes. Now, on this page, I want to start pulling out concepts that I want to think about. I can start them on this page and then if they get rich enough they can move out to their own page.
+== Concept/Category ==
+* Aristotle - argues that everything could be fit into a strict logical hierarchy and that objects have essential and accidental properties.
+* Kant - argues that are born with built in mental categories and that are minds actively shape our experience of reality.
+* Wittgenstein argues that there are no perfect definitions and that it is impossible to rigidly delineate a category such as games.
+* Vygotsky argues that concepts are socially and culturally constructed and that we learn to see the world in the ways that our culture has agree it is.
+* Eleanor Rosch in the 1970s argues that categories are based around a kind of mental average or prototype
+* Eco contrasted a hierarchical "dictionary" vision of categories and a boundless network of categories that he sees as a rhizome - a tangled underground root system
+** Cognitive types are mental blueprints for things like "dog". A CT is a multimodal, sensory-motor schema, a fluid set of neuro-cognitive "recognition instructions" built from every direct or indirect encounter you have ever had with a dog a vast array of experience that makes the concept ''live in you''.
+** Nuclear content is the minimal core public version of the concept that allows us to discuss dogs - "They are furry animals with four legs and a tail that go woof".
+** Molar content is the totality of society's knowledge of the concept.