
BI 150 Dan Nicholson: Machines, Organisms, Processes
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What Is a Concept?
At the material level, everything is perceptual at the conceptual level and in for certain experimental context, things have to become thing like. But if you didn't do any abstraction, we were just talking about the world. There will be no reason essentially to adopt a substance view, right? Everything would just look like processes that are stabilized only to an observer looking upon that thing at a particular time. So then what's a concept? It's a good example. Yeah. Well, I guess concepts can be just because they're abstractions. They don't have to reflect reality. Right? A concept. You can just say a concept is whatever I wanted to be. And I'm going to
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