Some years ago I kept mentioning my idea that concepts are relativistic hoping that someone would discuss the effects of this relativism with me. Eventually someone who was willing to talk to me once in a while became a little exasperated with me for repeating this over and over, and he explained that two authors had written a textbook on Cognitive Science that he read had pointed out that Concepts were relativistic back in 1972. (Implying that my idea was not new or particularly interesting.) I wondered if that was possibly true so I wrote a reply and told him that I would make a point to read that book. I made a note to get a copy the next time I was in the state university library. A few months later I found a reference in Wikipedia to the authors he had mentioned and it was quite clear that they frequently emphasized the point that Concepts were related in their textbooks.
Yes of course Concepts are related. But my choice of the term "relativistic" was not drawn from my cornucopia of grammatical errors or because I wanted to pretentiously use a term from physics but because I was trying to get the idea across that Concepts are not only related - they are relativistic. ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
