Organon F

Volume 30, May 2023, Issue 2, Pages 153–159

ISSN 2585-7150 (online) ISSN 1335-0668 (print)

Discussion Note | Special issue on Author Meets Critics Symposium: Discussion on The Relevance of Models

Conceptual Concretization

Theo A. F. Kuipers

https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2023.30205

Abstract

Leszek Nowak is rightly known as the pioneer of empirical concretization. As Giacomo Borbone notes, there is also a kind of conceptual concretization. This specific form of concept explication is illustrated by two transitions: from Bayesian conditionalization to Jeffrey conditionalization and from 'the straight rule' of learning from experience to Carnap's continuum of inductive methods. The paper closes with a schematic list of checkpoints for conceptual concretization in two rounds.

Keywords

Carnapian learning from experience; concept explication; concretization; Jeffrey conditionalization; idealization; Leszek Nowak; Poznań School of Methodology; schematic recipe for explication.

Author(s) and affiliation(s)

Author

Theo A. F. Kuipers

Affiliation

University of Groningen

Address

Faculty of Philosophy, Oude Boteringestraat 52, 9712 GL Groningen, Netherlands

E-mail

t.a.f.kuipers@rug.nl 

About this article

Received

5 January 2023

Accepted

5 February 2023

Publishers

Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences

Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences

Cite as

APA

Kuipers, T. A. F. (2023). Conceptual Concretization. Organon F30(2), 153–159. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2023.30205

Chicago

Kuipers, Theo A. F. 2023. "Conceptual Concretization." Organon F 30 (2): 153–159. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2023.30205

Harvard

Kuipers, T. A. F. (2023). Conceptual Concretization. Organon F, 30(2), pp. 153–159. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2023.30205

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© Theo A. F. Kuipers

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