Conceptual analysis as traditionally understood can be improved by allowing the use of a certain kind of empirical investigation. The conceptual analysis in which the kind of empirical investigation in question is used can be called “empirical conceptual analysis”. In the present inquiry, I provide a systematic exposition of empirical conceptual analysis, so understood, considering what exactly empirical conceptual analysis is, the different kinds of empirical conceptual analysis, and the main application of the method within philosophy. It can be defined as a method that consists in drawing a conclusion about the semantic application conditions of a predicate on the basis of observation of the manifestations of semantic intuitions. The different kinds of empirical conceptual analysis are distinguished according to the way the manifestations of semantic intuitions are observed. The main application of the method is solving conceptual disputes – situations in which different competent speakers of a language disagree about the semantic application conditions of a predicate from that language, and their disagreement is caused by the fact that they have different semantic intuitions about that predicate.

可以通过允许使用某种经验调查来改进传统上理解的概念分析。使用所讨论的那种经验调查的概念分析可以称为“经验概念分析”。在目前的探究中，我系统地阐述了经验概念分析，如此理解，考虑究竟什么是经验概念分析，不同种类的经验概念分析，以及该方法在哲学中的主要应用。它可以定义为一种方法，它包括在观察语义直觉的表现形式的基础上，对谓词的语义应用条件作出结论。不同种类的经验概念分析是根据观察语义直觉表现的方式来区分的。该方法的主要应用是解决概念争议——一种语言的不同说话者对该语言的谓词的语义应用条件存在分歧，而他们的分歧是由于他们对该谓词的语义直觉不同而引起的。 .