There Is No Sin!

[Mister Agenda]

OK, let's try again: your concept of a rock is how you know a rock is a rock. Without having a concept of a rock, you wouldn't know what one is. It's how you can tell a rock you've never seen before is a rock. Because you know what a rock is. You have a concept of what a rock is. If you see an object that doesn't fit that concept, you conclude it is not a rock.

Okay let's try this again, concept by definition is not actual knowledge. In your little picture here you have missed something very important, what if my concept of a rock is wrong, concepts are not taught. So my concept of a rock is wrong and I call a tree a rock and your concept of a rock is correct and you call a rock a rock, how to you explain to me that my concept is not correct being that a concept is not actual knowledge.

GC

Right, a concept is not necessarily correct, but it certainly can be. If your concept of rock is wrong, you have an incorrect concept of rock (and your concept is not knowledge); if your concept of rock is right, you have a correct concept of rock (and your concept is knowledge). Concepts are both learned from experience, and taught. One of my history teachers taught me the concept that some events in and concerning WWI helped lead to WWII. I learned the concept that irons are sometimes very hot from experience.

All of your knowledge is composed of correct sensory impressions, memories, and concepts. If any of those are incorrect, they do not form knowledge (though you may think they do, you would just be misinformed and unjustified in your certainty). If your concept of a rock was incorrect, I would try to persuade you of how you need to correct your concept with evidence, logic, and reason; as I am in trying to correct your error-ridden concept of concepts. I hope if it were to ever come to that concerning rocks, you would be easier to reach.

A concept can be incorrect, in which case it is not actual knowledge; or it can be correct, in which case it IS actual knowledge.