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Concepts are highly theoretical entities.
One cannot study them empirically without committing oneself to substantial preliminary assumptions. On the basis of something important that all three have in common, our earliest and most basic concepts of them are identical in structure. Having substance concepts need not depend on knowing words, but language interacts with substance concepts, completely transforming the conceptual repertoire. I will discuss how public language plays a crucial role in both the acquisition of substance concepts and their completed structure. Ftp instructions follow below.