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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.