concept

Definitions

1. An abstract and general idea; an abstraction.
2. Understanding retained in the mind, from experience, reasoning and 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).
3. Having an experimental or strikingly different design, especially to test or demonstrate new features: a concept car.
4. conceit
5. A description of supported operations on a type, including their syntax and semantics.
6. That which exists in the mind as the product of careful mental activity:conception, idea, image, notion, perception, thought.
7. an idea or theory. His design was a new concept in town-planning. denkbeeld, konsepsie, begrip فِكْرَه، مَفْهوم понятие conceito pojetí der Begriff begreb; idé; princip έννοια, αντίληψηconcepto idee ایده؛ نظر konsepti conceptרעיון संकल्पना pojam, pristup, koncepcija, shvaćanje fogalom konsep hugtak, heildarhugmynd concetto 構想 개념 idėja, sąvoka, samprata jēdziens; priekšstats konsep begripidé, forståelse, konseptrozwiązanie مفكوره، عقيده، تصور مفهوم conceito concept, idee концепция poňatie, poj...
8. concepto, opinión, noción, idea.
9. A general idea or understanding of something: the concept of inertia; the concept of free will. See Synonyms at idea.
10. A plan or original idea: The original concept was for a building with 12 floors.
11. A unifying idea or theme, especially for a product or service: a new restaurant concept.
12. an idea, esp an abstract idea: the concepts of biology.
13. (Philosophy) philosophy a general idea or notion that corresponds to some class of entities and that consists of the characteristic or essential features of the class
    philosophy
14. (Philosophy) philosophy a. the conjunction of all the characteristic features of something
    philosophy

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Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race⟳. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define⟳ groups of people by race⟳ really a matter⟳ of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?”

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