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Philosophy of Conceptual Network

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This work is a very slightly modified translation of my text in Polish, published in 1994 by Oficyna Literacka in Krakow as a thin booklet under the title ABSOLUT—Odniesienie urojone (The Absolute—A Delusive Reference). It is a purely philosophical work. Here, in contrast to my later books and articles, I do not put emphasis on inferring properties of the conceptual network from the underlying neuronal network in the brain. I talk primarily about what is directly accessible to our consciousness, to our “selves”, but without denying the existence of a real external world, the “things in themselves” existence of which we can only infer indirectly from the structure of our conceptual network. I believe that this work is still overwhelmingly valid, although today I prefer a less philosophical and more scientific approach (Korzeniewski, 2010; Korzeniewski, 2013a; Korzeniewski, 2013b).
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Korzeniewski, B. (2014) Philosophy of Conceptual Network. Open Journal of Philosophy, 4, 451-491. doi: 10.4236/ojpp.2014.44050. 
 

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