From the point of view of my own idiosyncratic way of understanding language, the most important lesson is the conceptual primacy of specifically propositional representations. Representations whose content would be expressed by subsentential expressions such as singular terms and predicates must be understood in terms of the contributions they mak

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I am concerned that cognitive scientists who think about concept use do not sufficiently appreciate the lessons philosophers learned about concepts from Frege, which developed into quantificational logic. One such lesson is that any approach that thinks of concepts in terms of Boolean combinations of microfeatures is doomed to be unable to consider

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