Categories are an important part of how we understand the world. We speak, think, and form attitudes about categories, such as chairs, dogs, lawyers, and men. Imagine a person tells you they have no idea what a dog is. We say they lack a concept" of a dog. A concept is something in the mind that allows us to think about particular dogs as members of the same category. But what is a concept? We will start with the classic answer: Learning a concept is learning a definition. From there, we will cover the surprisingly eclectic answers that followed. Throughout the course, we will consider learning an important part of understanding concepts.
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