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Concepts: How We Classify and Understand the WorldConcepts make recognition, classification, and inference possible. This essay separates concepts, words, and objects, then examines intension, extension, prototypes, boundaries, counterexamples, and revision.↗
Entities: Identity, Reference, and AI SystemsAn entity is something treated as having a distinguishable identity. This essay separates mentions, names, classes, records, and real-world referents across philosophy and AI.↗
Words, Concepts, and Objects: Reference and ReasoningA practical distinction among parts of speech, semantic content, ontological categories, and the roles concepts play in reasoning.↗