Absolute Concept Theory
In philosophy Absolute Theory usually refers to a theory based on concepts such as the concept of space time that exists independently of other concepts and objects, but how do we arrive at a universal concept? This one question drove me to solve this problem and I found my answers in linguistics and the scientific method.
Often times concepts are hard to define and understand and have a root in human language, both verbal and nonverbal. Research has been done to learn how the ability to understand has developed in the human species.
When your a child external stimulus is absorbed using your five senses. This includes human speech in the form of words and gestures. Our brains are able to figure out which sounds are words and where there are breaks between words, general grammatical labels, and we are able to apply them without any real formal training and some how gain comprehension. Noam Chomsky has a theory based on this field of research.
Chomsky's Linguistic Theory says that all languages contain similar structures and rules (a universal grammar) and the fact that children everywhere acquire language the same way, and without much effort seems to indicate that we were born wired with the basics already present in our brains. He has named this bio mechanism in our brains the Language Acquisition Device or LAD and believes this is what allows us to learn language.
Oxford defines language as the principle method of human communication, consisting of words used in a structured and conventional way and conveyed by speech, writing, or gesture as well as a system of communication used by a country or community. This is where words come into play as they define concepts. What if there is not a word or a way to explain something?
This is why I have developed a methodology to discover, define, and validate concepts much like the scientific method. It is called Absolute Concept Theory.
