When we find that the concepts typically held by people, termed folk ontologies, don’t correspond to the territory, what should we do with those terms/words? This post discusses three possible ways of handling them. Each is described and discussed with examples from science and philosophy.
When we find that the concepts typically held by people, termed folk ontologies, don’t correspond to the territory, what should we do with those terms/words? This post discusses three possible ways of handling them. Each is described and discussed with examples from science and philosophy.