In some instances, however, he misconstrues what I intended to say. In this response, I attempt to clarify instances where I led him to inappropriate conclusions concerning my position.
Conceptual knowledge is circular.
As a psychologist, I can hardly understand that definition, although no doubt it makes perfect sense in other domains of study, perhaps semantics. If conceptualization is taken as a psychological phenomenon rather than an analytic one, then it is hardly circular. If a discrimination is sensorimotor in nature, the conceptualization may be accomplished and expressed purely in differential behavior, such as approach or avoidance. Conceptualization of a sensorimotor distinction in a socialized linguistic human might just as well be articulated in terms of the network of existing socially defined concepts. Such, however, is not my intention.