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    Challenges→Primitive concepts are in principle unlearnable.

    If conceptual change in science allows genuinely novel primitives to arise through theoretical reconceptualization, unlearnability cannot be a general feature of primitive concepts.

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    Conceptual change(in philosophy of science)
    When scientists develop fundamentally new ways of thinking about or categorizing something in the world, rather than just adding more details to old ideas.
    General feature(in logical and philosophical reasoning)
    A characteristic that applies broadly across most or all cases, rather than being unique to just a few situations.
    Primitive concepts(Includes virtually all lexical concepts under Fodor's view)
    Concepts that lack constituent structure and cannot be broken down into simpler components; treated by Fodor as unlearnable.
    Theoretical reconceptualization(in philosophy of science)
    When a scientific theory is completely rethought or reorganized, changing how we understand the fundamental nature of something.
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    (in epistemology and cognitive philosophy)
    The quality of being impossible to unlearn or forget once you've learned it; something that cannot be removed from your understanding.

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