For any given category of individual 'things' eg chairs, is it possible to list features which all chairs have but which nothing which isn't a chair has?
If not, how else do you think genral concepts might be 'constructed'?
Does 'pattern recognition' offer an approach?
Do we form category concepts by somehow 'processing' ideas of particular objects, or is it the other way round, ie we are only able to form ideas of a particular object if we first have the concept of a category to which it belongs? Do you first get the idea of a particular table and subsequently form the idea of the category table, or do have to have the category of table if we are to conceive of a particular table?
If someone is able to do something but has no clue about how they do it, how weird is that?
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