Conceptual Concretization

Abstract

Leszek Nowak is rightly known as the pioneer of empirical concretization. As Giacomo Borbone notes, there is also a kind of conceptual concretization. This specific form of concept explication is illustrated by two transitions: from Bayesian conditionalization to Jeffrey conditionalization and from 'the straight rule' of learning from experience to Carnap's continuum of inductive methods. The paper closes with a schematic list of checkpoints for conceptual concretization in two rounds.

Keywords

• carnapian learning from experience
• concept explication
• concretization
• jeffrey conditionalization
• idealization
• leszek nowak
• poznań school of methodology
• schematic recipe for explication