Publication details
Simple Concepts and Simple Expressions
| Authors | |
|---|---|
| Year of publication | 2000 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | The Logica Yearbook 1999 |
| MU Faculty or unit | |
| Citation | |
| Field | Philosophy and religion |
| Keywords | concepts; constructions; transparent intensional logic; possible worlds; intensions; conceptual systems |
| Description | Simple concepts are defined as closed constructions which do not contain other constructions. The hypothesis that any simple expressions express a simple concept is wrong. Many simple expressions of a natural language came into being as abbreviations, due to some definition so that the corresponding conceptis given by the (not simple!) definiens. |