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A dual-character concept requires two things to determine category membership: a set of concrete features, and the abstract values that these features serve to realize. Such concepts were first defined by Joshua Knobe, Sandeep Prasada and George E Newman in 2013. [1]

The prototypical dual-character concept is "artist". [2] It has both a concrete dimension (technical mastery), and an abstract dimension (aesthetic values). Other examples are scientist, Christian, and gangster. [3]

It has been suggested that the concepts of beauty [4] [3] and gender [2] are dual-character concepts.

References

  1. ^ Knobe, Joshua; Prasada, Sandeep; Newman, George E (2013). "Dual character concepts and the normative dimension of conceptual representation". Cognition. 2 (127): 242–257. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2013.01.005. PMID  23454798. S2CID  3370151.
  2. ^ a b Cai Guo; Carol S. Dweck; Ellen M. Markman (2021). "Gender Categories as Dual-Character Concepts?" (PDF). Cognitive Science.
  3. ^ a b Shen-yi Liao; Aaron Meskin; Joshua Knobe. "Dual Character Art Concepts". Pacific Philosophical Quarterly.
  4. ^ Cova, Florian (2022). "Experimental philosophy of aesthetics". PsyArXiv. doi: 10.31234/osf.io/kzp5c.