MODR 1760 Lecture 14: Session 14&15 Lecture - Conceptual Analysis

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Generating cases for determining the meaning and use of concepts. When you define concepts, you usually identify the necessary properties/ requirements that determine when the concept can be applied. Generalizing: identifying the general qualities of the concept, which determine when it can be correctly be applied: pulling out the essential defining features of the concept. Interpreting: using appropriate examples to demonstrate actual applications of the concept that is, examples that embody the general qualities of the concept: thinking of examples of what that concept means. Deciding whether someone is using the idea properly in everyday language. When looking for the meaning in a dictionary, you are going to get a list of the ways that the word is used but you are going to have to decide what it means to you. Some concepts are new, meanings are not yet fixed and are in the process of evolution.

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