Nirmalangshu Mukherji, "The Human Mind Through the Lens of Language: Generative Explorations" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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The Concept of a Concept
The concept emerges when the visuals content say the visual content or a perceptual concept content to the audible content information is kind of freed from its stimulus dependent condition and become something like an abstract idea. And that happens because it combines with the sound. It's very difficult to explain the notion of the concept as both abstract and having, you know, some kind of a contact coming from perception. The combination with sounds also problem. There cannot really be anything more than images in the concept of a concept. If you want to shun geology, keep to the empirical resource available to us.
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