Assignment: Semantic Views

Assignment: Semantic Views
Assignment: Semantic Views
Assignment: Semantic Views
Week 4 – Assignment 2 Assignment 2: Practicum I Journal Entry 3 This is your third out of six journal assignments in this course. Write a 300–500-word journal entry covering the following: Identify two or three goals for this week that you have established for yourself related to Practicum I. Review and reflect on how you met these goals this week. Explain how you integrated two concepts or content areas from Week 4 into your practicum experience this week. Identify your area of greatest learning this week. Submit your journal entry to the Journal area by Tuesday, September 26, 2017. Name your journal entry SU_NSG6620_W4_A2_LastName_FirstInitial.
The semantic view of concepts suggests that concepts are objects. In this view, concepts are abstract objects of a category out of a human’s mind rather than some mental representations.
There is debate as to the relationship between concepts and . However, it is necessary at least to begin by understanding that the concept “dog” is philosophically distinct from the things in the world grouped by this concept – or the reference class or . Concepts that can be equated to a single word are called “lexical concepts”.
Study of concepts and conceptual structure falls into the disciplines of , , , and .
In the simplest terms, a concept is a name or label that regards or treats an abstraction as if it had concrete or material existence, such as a person, a place, or a thing. It may represent a natural object that exists in the real world like a tree, an animal, a stone, etc. It may also name an artificial (man-made) object like a chair, computer, house, etc. Abstract ideas and knowledge domains such as freedom, equality, science, happiness, etc., are also symbolized by concepts. It is important to realize that a concept is merely a symbol, a representation of the abstraction. The word is not to be mistaken for the thing. For example, the word “moon” (a concept) is not the large, bright, shape-changing object up in the sky, but only represents that celestial object. Concepts are created (named) to describe, explain and capture reality as it is known and understood.