GENERALITY CONSTRAINT


Meaning of GENERALITY CONSTRAINT in English

Constraint on concept possession (and hence on the ability to entertain genuine thoughts) to the effect that a subject has the concept C only if the set of thoughts the subject is able to entertain is closed under recombination of C with all other semantically and categorically appropriate concepts that the subject possesses.

<Discussion> <References> Rick Grush & Pete Mandik

English dictionary of philosophy of mind.      Английский словарь философии сознания.