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Beyond Witches, Angels and Unicorns. Ramírez Calle, Olga This paper attempts to be a contribution to the epistemological project of explaining complex conceptual structures departing from more basic ones. The central thesis of the paper is that there are what I call “functionally structured concepts”, these are non-harmonic concepts in Dummett’s sense that might be legitimized if there is a function that justifies the tie between the inferential connection the concept allows us to trace. Proving this requires enhancing the russellian existential analysis of definite descriptions to apply to functions and using this in proving the legitimacy of such concepts. The utility of the proposal is shown for the case of thick ethical terms and an attempt is made to use it in explaining the development of natural numbers. This last move could allow us to go one step lower in explaining the genesis of natural numbers while maintaining the notion of abstract numbers as higher order entities. 2024-10-03T10:18:37Z 2024-10-03T10:18:37Z 2018-03-30 journal article Ramirez Calle, O. (2018) Beyond Witches, Angels and Unicorns. E-Logos. 25 (1), pp. 4 - 15. https://hdl.handle.net/10630/34271 10.18267/j.e-logos.450 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ open access Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional Department of Philosophy, University of Economics, Prague