Within cognitive and developmental psychology, it is commonly argued that perception is the basis for object concepts.
According to this view, sensory experiences would translate into concepts thanks to the recognition, correlation and integration of physical
attributes. Once attributes are integrated into general patterns, subjects would become able to parse objects into categories. In this
article, we critically review the three epistemological perspectives according to which it can be claimed that object concepts depend on
perception: state non-conceptualism, content non-conceptualism, and content conceptualism. We show that
the three perspectives have problems that make perception inadequate as a conceptual basis. We suggest that the inquiry about the origin and
development of object concepts can benefit from a pragmatic perspective that considers objects’ cultural functions as a
conceptual foundation. We address this possibility from the theoretical framework of the pragmatics of the object,
considering the importance of objects’ functional permanence.
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