Beyond
the Traditional Concept of Concepts: A Set-theoretical and Phenomenological
Case Study of the "Value" Concept in "Capital"
A. Yoshida |
A
set-theoretical and phenomenological case study of the concept of
the "value" in K. Marx's "Capital" is sketchily
presented. The intent is to go beyond the traditional concept of
concepts and concept formation that has been adopted in the long
history of psychological concept formation studies. The "value" concept
is set-theoretically formulated as the set of sections of a relation,
and is phenomenologically explicated as the sedimentation of the
determinations by the external social horizon. With this case study,
these two formulations, the author believes, are shown to go beyond
the traditional concept: "Disregarding the particulars and extracting
the common features" and/or "common response to dissimilar
stimuli". Thus, the article attempts to draw the attention of
fellow psychologists to the relevance of both the Set theory and
Husserlian Phenomenology to the psychological study of "real" concepts
and concept formation.
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