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Concepts
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Assets: Rights, Control, and Future BenefitAn asset is more than something valuable. This essay separates operational, legal, economic, and accounting claims through rights, control, future benefit, and evidence.↗
Genes: Inheritance, Expression, and the Continuity of LifeGenes are heritable functional units, not complete blueprints. This essay connects DNA, expression, development, environment, and evolutionary history.↗
Ecology and Ecosystems: Relations, Feedback, and ChangeEcology concerns relations between life and environment. This essay distinguishes ecology from ecosystems, explains feedback and adaptation, and tests claims about business and product ecosystems.↗
Conceptual and Logical Thinking: From Classification to ActionConceptual thinking organizes classifications and logical thinking constrains inference. This essay maps perception, causation, probability, creativity, criticism, systems, strategy, decision, and metacognition.↗
Concepts: How We Classify and Understand the WorldConcepts make recognition, classification, and inference possible. This essay separates concepts, words, and objects, then examines intension, extension, prototypes, boundaries, counterexamples, and revision.↗
Expectation: Belief, Hope, Norms, and ActionExpectation can be a forecast, a hope, a social standard, or a belief about what action can achieve. This essay separates those meanings and connects them to intention, decision, and feedback.↗
Systems: Boundaries, Interactions, and AIA system is more than a collection of parts. This essay explains boundaries, interactions, state, feedback, emergence, purpose, and why an AI model is only one component of an AI system.↗
Entities: Identity, Reference, and AI SystemsAn entity is something treated as having a distinguishable identity. This essay separates mentions, names, classes, records, and real-world referents across philosophy and AI.↗
Ontology: What Exists and What AI Can RepresentOntology concerns what exists, the categories and identity conditions of entities, and their basic relations. In AI, those commitments become an explicit domain model.↗
Mental Models: Representation, Prediction, and ActionMental models simplify situations so that we can understand and simulate them. This article separates representation, explanation, inference, prediction, decision, and feedback models.↗
Mental Representation: How Minds Carry ContentMental representations are content-bearing states involved in perception, memory, imagination, reasoning, and action. This essay examines their targets, vehicles, formats, errors, and philosophical limits.↗
Human Thinking: Representation, Reasoning, and ActionThinking is more than inner speech or formal logic. It uses concepts, images, memory, emotion, bodily states, and external tools to build judgments, imagine possibilities, and guide action.↗
Words, Concepts, and Objects: Reference and ReasoningA practical distinction among parts of speech, semantic content, ontological categories, and the roles concepts play in reasoning.↗