In this paper, I explore the implications of recent empirical research on concept representation for the philosophical enterprise of conceptual analysis. I argue that conceptual analysis, as it is commonly practiced, is committed to certain assumptions about the nature of our intuitive categorization judgments. I then try to show how these assumptions clash with contemporary accounts of concept representation in cognitive psychology. After entertaining an objection to my argument, I close by considering ways in which conceptual analysis might be altered to accord better with the empirical work. © 1992 Kluwer Academic Publishers.
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Ramsey, W. (1992). Prototypes and conceptual analysis. Topoi, 11(1), 59–70. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00768299
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