January 13, 2016 at 10:25AM
"[S]tandard theories are fundamentally mistaken in assuming that basic concepts are undecomposable primitives." #readingToday

Standard theories of meaning assume that all of our complex concepts can be analyzed into undecomposable primitives. Such primitives are taken to be the ultimate "building blocks" of meaning. The concept of causation is often taken to be such an ultimate building block. We believe that the standard theories are fundamentally mistaken in assuming that basic concepts are undecomposable primitives.

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