Природа и структура на понятията според „Философски речник на всекидневния език"
Nature and Structure of Concepts according to "Philosophical Vocabulary of Everyday Language"

Summary/Abstract: The hypothesis that concepts are mental representations dependent on situations and conventiona and, structured in a "fabric-web" manner is being tested against the empirical data of ordinary Bulgarian linguistic usage presented in "Philosophical dictionary of everyday language" (2007, Sofia, Sofia University Press). Analysis of the major current theories of concept shows that most of them partly cohere with the empirical findings, but the latter are best explained by the duality of "fabric" and "web" as metaphors of decentralized and centralized structures. The "fabric-web" model allows for a nonequivocal distinction between concepts (philosophical) categories. It also supports a dual understanding of "abstract" such that all concepts can be conceived as abstract in nature and at the same time situated. This seconds the view that philosophy is an activity embedded in experience, and basically empirical.

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