Thinking and Concepts

How do we think? Susan Greenfield has stated that thought is “movement confined to the brain.” Others contend there is a special language of thought. We think using concepts, our ways of dividing and understanding what is in the world. They are not neccesarily linguistic. Animals have concepts, too. But for the most part, they are not linguistic at all.

Concepts are mental representations of categories. Concepts are also implicitly or explicitly theor etical about the world and how it works. W...