ABSTRACT
Conceptual Atomism (CA) is the view that most concepts are represented psychologically as atoms, with no internal structure and CA Atomism on its own is a psychological/semantic theory, but from its inception, it has been mixed up with the separate, meta-semantic project of naturalizing content. I will show that this combined project is forced to end in the self-defeating position of positing non-atomic structures for a large number of concepts. I suggest that a better way out would be to separate the two projects, and allow each to develop on its own.
