Assertion: concept's structure | /r/HasProperty | definitional
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text: The classical theory of concepts says that concepts have a definitional structure.
text: But another possibility—one that many philosophers are now taking seriously—is that our concepts lack definitional structure.
text: According to the classical theory, a lexical concept C has definitional structure in that it is composed of simpler concepts that express necessary and sufficient conditions for falling under C.
text: According to this theory, a lexical concept C doesn’t have definitional structure but has probabilistic structure in that something falls under C just in case it satisfies a sufficient number of properties encoded by C’s constituents.