Polymorphous concepts / trans. from Engl. by A. V. Nekhaev, I. N. Nekhaeva
https://doi.org/10.25206/2542-0488-2025-10-2-144-152
EDN: XNTKDW
Abstract
The article attempts to clarify the criteria for Ryle’s class of polymorphous concepts. Ryle calls paradigmatic examples of the class such concepts as working and thinking. A common characteristic feature of polymorphous concepts is that in propositions of the form ‘P performs X’ one can always substitute a kind of specific activities in place of X, but there no one kind of activity every case of which is necessarily X-ing.
About the Author
J. O. Urmson
Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, Oxford
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
About the translators
Nekhaev Andrei Viktorovich, Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, Associate Professor, Professor of the History, Philosophy and Social Communications Department, Omsk State Technical University, Omsk; Professor of the Philosophy, Media and Journalism Department, Tyumen State University, Tyumen.
SPIN-код: 5844-9381.
ORCID: 0000-0003-1358-743X.
AuthorID (РИНЦ): 394939.
AuthorID (SCOPUS): 57211853279.
ResearcherID: M-7208-2016.
E-mail: avnehaev@omgtu.ru
Nekhaeva Iraida Nikolaevna, Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, Associate Professor, Professor of the Philosophy, Media and Journalism Department, Tyumen State University, Tyumen.
SPIN-код: 4725-8042.
ORCID: 0000-0002-6828-106X.
AuthorID (РИНЦ): 499225.
ResearcherID: N-5790-2019.
E-mail: i.n.nekhaeva@utmn.ru
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Urmson J.O. Polymorphous concepts / trans. from Engl. by A. V. Nekhaev, I. N. Nekhaeva. Omsk Scientific Bulletin. Series Society. History. Modernity. 2025;10(2):144-152. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.25206/2542-0488-2025-10-2-144-152. EDN: XNTKDW
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