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Can we do without concepts?

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  1. Readers familiar with the topic of vagueness will recognize this as the so-called dynamic version of the sorites.

  2. The two colleagues are Del Lindsey and Angela Brown, psychologists of vision at Ohio State University.

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Raffman, D. Can we do without concepts?. Philos Stud 149, 423–427 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-010-9529-9

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