Where do concepts reside?

The ideational construct resides in our thinking bodies as some biochemical/neurological code.

The name and the various descriptions reside there as thought and can be expressed as an image in sound or as a visual image which travels between two cognizing bodies: the sender and the receiver.

The name received locks into the receiving frame of reference, conjuring up that frame of reference’s properties associated with the name. These may be broadly similar with the meaning of the name as uttered by the sender, but will differ in some ways, both denotatively as well as connotatively, both intensionally and extensionally.

The referent of the concept resides in the thing, half of which —that which is thought about— resides as a continuity in the world of behaviour although much of its appearance is a co-creation of the perceiving and cognizing body, the thing behaving and the environment of whcih they are both part.

The properties with which a concept can become a reason reside in the interaction between the cognizing body and what is being cognized. Redness, hardness, roughness, smelliness, tastefulness, loudness, reside in our body as an encoding of the intensities and wavelengths of electromagnetic waves, vibrating air, the nature of the molecules causing smell and taste and the way our sensitive skin decodes the touch of surfaces.

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