Polymorphous concepts

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25206/2542-0488-2025-10-2-144-152

Keywords:

Gilbert Ryle, conceptual analysis, necessary and sufficient conditions for the application of the concept, polymorphous concepts, thinking.

Abstract

The article attempts to clarify the criteria for Ryle’s class of polymorphous concepts. Ryle calls paradigmatic examples of the class such concepts as working and thinking. A common characteristic feature of polymorphous concepts is that in propositions of the form ‘P performs X’ one can always substitute a kind of specific activities in place of X, but there no one kind of activity every case of which is necessarily X-ing.

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Nekhaev Andrei Viktorovich, Omsk State Technical University

Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, Associate Professor, Professor of the History, Philosophy and Social Communications Department, Omsk State Technical University, Omsk; Professor of the Philosophy, Media and Journalism Department, Tyumen State University, Tyumen.

Nekhaeva Iraida Nikolaevna, Tyumen State University

Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, Associate Professor, Professor of the Philosophy, Media and Journalism Department, Tyumen State University, Tyumen.

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Published

2025-05-26

How to Cite

Urmson Д. О., Nekhaev А. В., & Nekhaeva И. Н. (2025). Polymorphous concepts. Omsk Scientific Bulletin. Series Society. History. Modernity, 10(2), 144–152. https://doi.org/10.25206/2542-0488-2025-10-2-144-152

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Vol. 10 No. 2 (2025)

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Philosophy

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