Posted: Mar 19, 2010 1:33 pm
Teuton wrote:
Well, in my view...
That's fine.
Teuton wrote: a concept is what is expressed by a set of intra- and interlinguistically synonymous predicates and what represents one or many properties. Not all concepts represent real, existent properties. (Some philosophers think that properties can exist even if nothing exists that has them, but I deny this.) For example, the concept <unicorn> is expressed by the predicate "is a unicorn" and it represents the property of being a unicorn. But since no unicorns exist, the property of being a unicorn doesn't exist either. But this certainly doesn't mean that the corresponding concept and predicate(s) are nonexistent too.
No the concept of the unicorn exists but the concept is meaningless since it cannot be defined only described. There is absolutely no reason to talk about it, let alone discuss its migratory habits.
Edit.
So there are no such things as unicorns thus they cannot be defined. Sure one can describe an imagined construct, but it is meaningless. Which takes me way back to my original points about free will and evil.