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The image of God that is maintained by modern organized religions is one I could never understand, or align myself with. Too often, the image of a , residing in the clouds above, judging your every move, is the one that is perpetuated. And it is all too often the people who identify with this god are hypocritical, unwavering and unsympathetic to other people’s beliefs or lifestyle choices. Is this the only image of God to which we may subscribe?

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Not surprisingly, critics of the abilities view argue in the otherdirection. They note difficulties that the abilities view inherits byits rejection of mental representations. One is that the view isill-equipped to explain the productivity of thought; another is that itcan say little about mental processes. And if proponents of theabilities view remain neutral about the existence of mentalrepresentations, they open themselves to the criticism that explicationof these abilities is best given in terms of underlying mentalrepresentations and processes (see Fodor 1968 and Chomsky 1980 forgeneral discussion of the anti-intellectualist tradition in thephilosophy of mind).

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The classical theory has come under considerable pressure in thelast thirty years or so, not just in philosophy but in psychology andother fields as well. For psychologists, the main problem has been thatthe classical theory has difficulty explaining arobust set of empirical findings. At the center of this work is thediscovery that certain categories are taken to be more representativeor typical and that typicality scores correlate with a wide variety ofpsychological data (for reviews, see Smith & Medin 1981, Murphy2002). For instance, apples are judged to be more typical than plumswith respect to the category of fruit, and correspondingly apples arejudged to have more features in common with fruit. There are many otherfindings of this kind. One other is that more typical items arecategorized more efficiently. For example, subjects are quicker tojudge that apples are a kind of fruit than to judge that plums are. Theproblem isn't that the classical theory is inconsistent withresults like these but that it does nothing to explain them.

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Before turning to other theories of conceptual structure, it'sworth pausing to see what's so appealing about classical ordefinitional structure. Much of its appeal comes from the way it offersunified treatments of concept acquisition, categorization, andreference determination. In each case, the crucial work is being doneby the very same components. Concept acquisition can be understood as aprocess in which new complex concepts are created by assembling theirdefinitional constituents. Categorization can be understood as apsychological process in which a complex concept is matched to a targetitem by checking to see if each and every one of its definitionalconstituents applies to the target. And reference determination,we've already seen, is a matter of whether the definitionalconstituents do apply to the target.

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Whatever name you choose to deem this great creator being; God, Allah, Jah, Elohim, Jehovah, The Grand Architect, The Great Geometer, none could even come close to defining its true nature. This was how our ancestors understood God.

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"Nobody wants to be a hero... but in every man there is something he cannot give up and still remain himself - a core, an identity, a thing that is summed up for him by the sound of his own name on his own ears. If he gives that up, he becomes a different man, not himself". --Arthur Miller