Kinda, but I think both of these approaches are incomplete. In practice finding a definition and studying examples of it need to be interwoven, and you’ll have a gradual process where you start with a tentative definition, identify examples and counterexamples, adjust the definition, and so on. And insofar as our examples should focus on things which are actually possible to build (rather than weird thought experiments like blockhead or the chinese room) then it seems like what I’m proposing has aspects of both of the approaches you suggest.
My guess is that it’s more productive to continue discussing this on my response to your other post, where I make this argument in a more comprehensive way.
Kinda, but I think both of these approaches are incomplete. In practice finding a definition and studying examples of it need to be interwoven, and you’ll have a gradual process where you start with a tentative definition, identify examples and counterexamples, adjust the definition, and so on. And insofar as our examples should focus on things which are actually possible to build (rather than weird thought experiments like blockhead or the chinese room) then it seems like what I’m proposing has aspects of both of the approaches you suggest.
My guess is that it’s more productive to continue discussing this on my response to your other post, where I make this argument in a more comprehensive way.