concept
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Latin conceptus (“a thought, purpose, also a conceiving, etc.”), from concipere, present active infinitive of concipiō (“to take in, conceive”); see conceive.
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
concept (plural concepts)
- An understanding retained in the mind, from experience, reasoning and/or imagination; a generalization (generic, basic form), or abstraction (mental impression), of a particular set of instances or occurrences (specific, though different, recorded manifestations of the concept).
- 1855, Thomas Reid, Sir W. Hamilton, James Walker, “Essay IV. Of Conception”, in Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man[1]:
- The words conception, concept, notion, should be limited to the thought of what can not be represented in the imagination; as, the thought suggested by a general term.
- 2011 July 20, Edwin Mares, “Propositional Functions”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, accessed on 2012-07-15:
- Frege's concepts are very nearly propositional functions in the modern sense. Frege explicitly recognizes them as functions. Like Peirce's rhema, a concept is unsaturated. They are in some sense incomplete. Although Frege never gets beyond the metaphorical in his description of the incompleteness of concepts and other functions, one thing is clear: the distinction between objects and functions is the main division in his metaphysics. There is something special about functions that makes them very different from objects.
- 1855, Thomas Reid, Sir W. Hamilton, James Walker, “Essay IV. Of Conception”, in Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man[1]:
- (programming) In generic programming, a description of supported operations on a type, including their syntax and semantics.
Synonyms [edit]
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Hyponyms [edit]
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- conceptualization, conceptualisation, conceptuality
- notion
- scheme
- rule, regulation
- property, attribute, dimension
- abstraction, abstract
- quantity
- part, section, division
- whole
- law, natural law, law of nature
- hypothesis
- possibility
- theory
- fact
- rule
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Translations [edit]
something understood and retained in the mind
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External links [edit]
- concept in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- concept in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
Concept on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Concept in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
Dutch [edit]
Noun [edit]
concept n (plural concepten, diminutive conceptje)
French [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
concept m (plural concepts)
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Romanian [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Borrowed from Latin conceptus.
Noun [edit]
Related terms [edit]
- concepe
- concepere
- conceptibil
- conceptibilitate
- conceptism
- conceptual
- conceptualism
- conceptualist
- conceptualiza
- conceptualizat (past participle of conceptualiza)
- conceptualizare
- concepție
- concepțional
Declension [edit]
declension of concept
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| gender n | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
| nominative/accusative | un concept | conceptul | niște concepte | conceptele |
| genitive/dative | unui concept | conceptului | unor concepte | conceptelor |
