concept en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈkɒn.sɛpt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˈkɒn.sɛpt/ (Boston, Canada, Maine)
- [ˈkɔ̟n.sept] (New-Zealand)
- /ˈkɑn.sɛpt/ (Atlantic-Canada, General-American)
- /ˈkɔn.sept/ (Australia)
Etymology
Etymology tree Latin conceptusder. Middle French conceptbor. English concept Borrowed from Middle French concept, from Latin conceptus (“a thought, purpose, also a conceiving, etc.”), from concipiō (“to take in, conceive”). Doublet of conceit and concetto. See conceive.
Meanings
- An abstract and general idea; an abstraction.
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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).
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.
2011 July 20, Edwin Mares, “Propositional Functions”, in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, retrieved 15 Jul 2012: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.
1855, Thomas Reid, Sir W. Hamilton, James Walker, “Essay IV. Of Conception”, in Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man: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?
2012 March-April, Jan Sapp, “Race Finished”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 05 Sep 2015, page 164:
- (qualifier:generic programming) A description of supported operations on a type, including their syntax and semantics.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| concepts | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
self-concept · open-concept · microconcept · puncept · concept artist · preconcept · conceptless · conceptious · closed-concept · concept map · pseudoconcept · concept art · gap concept · operating concept · multiconcept · conceptor · concept album · macroconcept · proof-of-concept · concept of operations · metaconcept · concept video · high-concept · proof of concept · primitive concept · concept drift · concept car · subconcept · high concept
Descendants
Hyponyms
regulation · possibility · fact · hypothesis · theory · dimension · natural law · quantity · abstract · section · division · conceptualization · abstraction · law · whole · law of nature · rule · attribute · notion · scheme · part · property · conceptualisation · conceptuality
Relateds
pattern · essential · thought · conceive · conceptive · misconception · conceptual · misconceive · fundamental · idea · conceptional · meaning
Synonyms
notion · conception · abstraction
Translations (145)
de Konzept (something understood and retained in the mind) · km ទស្សនាទាន (something understood and retained in the mind) · ro concept (something understood and retained in the mind) · uk конце́пція (something understood and retained in the mind) · sq koncept (something understood and retained in the mind) · kmr mefhûm (something understood and retained in the mind) · bg иде́я (something understood and retained in the mind) · it concetto (something understood and retained in the mind) · da begreb (something understood and retained in the mind) · sh по́јам (something understood and retained in the mind) · ja 概念 (something understood and retained in the mind) · be паня́цце (something understood and retained in the mind) · fr notion (something understood and retained in the mind) · mk концепт (something understood and retained in the mind) · lo ຄວາມຄຶດ (something understood and retained in the mind) · th แนวความคิด (something understood and retained in the mind) · ka კონცეპცია (something understood and retained in the mind) · he מושג \ מֻשָּׂג (something understood and retained in the mind) · az düşüncə (something understood and retained in the mind) · eu kontzeptu (something understood and retained in the mind) · th ความคิด (something understood and retained in the mind) · ur تَصَوُّر (something understood and retained in the mind) · ug چۈشەنچە (something understood and retained in the mind) · ru представле́ние (something understood and retained in the mind) · de Begriff (something understood and retained in the mind) · fa-ira مَفْهوم (something understood and retained in the mind) · ca concepte (something understood and retained in the mind) · ru поня́тие (something understood and retained in the mind) · my အလို (something understood and retained in the mind) · pl pomysł (something understood and retained in the mind) · es concepto (something understood and retained in the mind) · el σύλληψη (something understood and retained in the mind) · cy cysyniad (something understood and retained in the mind) · bg предста́ва (something understood and retained in the mind) · ba төшөнсә (something understood and retained in the mind) · ar تَصَوُّر (something understood and retained in the mind) · prs تَصَوُّر (something understood and retained in the mind) · fi käsite (something understood and retained in the mind) · gl concepto (something understood and retained in the mind) · tt төшенчә (something understood and retained in the mind) · sl pojem (something understood and retained in the mind) · ru конце́пт (something understood and retained in the mind) · ur مَفہُوم (something understood and retained in the mind) · nl begrip (something understood and retained in the mind) · lv jēdziens (something understood and retained in the mind) · fr concept (something understood and retained in the mind) · is hugtak (something understood and retained in the mind) · prs مَفْهُوم (something understood and retained in the mind) · be паня́цьце (something understood and retained in the mind) · ml ആശയം (something understood and retained in the mind) · sv begrepp (something understood and retained in the mind) · my ခံယူချက် (something understood and retained in the mind) · io koncepto (something understood and retained in the mind) · ko 개념 (something understood and retained in the mind) · az anlayış (something understood and retained in the mind) · th มโนทัศน์ (something understood and retained in the mind) · ar مَفْهُوم (something understood and retained in the mind) · bn ধারণা (something understood and retained in the mind) · tr düşünce (something understood and retained in the mind) · yi באַגריף (something understood and retained in the mind) · mi ariā (something understood and retained in the mind) · nb omgrep (something understood and retained in the mind) · grc ἔννοια (something understood and retained in the mind) · cs pojem (something understood and retained in the mind) · sh kòncept (something understood and retained in the mind) · ko 콘셉트 (something understood and retained in the mind) · nl opvatting (something understood and retained in the mind) · tr kavram (something understood and retained in the mind) · nb begrep (something understood and retained in the mind) · uz konsepsiya (something understood and retained in the mind) · ja 観念 (something understood and retained in the mind) · ka ცნება (something understood and retained in the mind) · tg мафҳум (something understood and retained in the mind) · pt conceito (something understood and retained in the mind) · ko 컨셉 (something understood and retained in the mind) · ga coincheap (something understood and retained in the mind) · da koncept (something understood and retained in the mind) · hi संकल्पना (something understood and retained in the mind) · th แนวคิด (something understood and retained in the mind) · ps مفهوم (something understood and retained in the mind) · mi aroro (something understood and retained in the mind) · uk іде́я (something understood and retained in the mind) · tg тасаввур (something understood and retained in the mind) · sv koncept (something understood and retained in the mind) · uk конце́пт (something understood and retained in the mind) · ky түшүнүк (something understood and retained in the mind) · bn প্রত্যয় (something understood and retained in the mind) · th มโนคติ (something understood and retained in the mind) · tk düşünje (something understood and retained in the mind) · fa-ira تَصَوُّر (something understood and retained in the mind) · lt sąvoka (something understood and retained in the mind) · ckb مەفھوم (something understood and retained in the mind) · sh ко̀нцепт (something understood and retained in the mind) · fi konsepti (something understood and retained in the mind) · ms konsep (something understood and retained in the mind) · bg поня́тие (something understood and retained in the mind) · yue 觀念 /观念 (something understood and retained in the mind) · hi अवधारणा (something understood and retained in the mind) · mk поим (something understood and retained in the mind) · kk түсінік (something understood and retained in the mind) · sk pojem (something understood and retained in the mind) · be ідэ́я (something understood and retained in the mind) · tl dalumat (something understood and retained in the mind) · tr fikir (something understood and retained in the mind) · ky концепция (something understood and retained in the mind) · hy հայեցակարգ (something understood and retained in the mind) · vi quan niệm (something understood and retained in the mind) · el έννοια (something understood and retained in the mind) · yue 概念 (something understood and retained in the mind) · uz mafhum (something understood and retained in the mind) · ht konsèp (something understood and retained in the mind) · te భావన (something understood and retained in the mind) · sh pójam (something understood and retained in the mind) · ug ئۇقۇم (something understood and retained in the mind) · tk konsept (something understood and retained in the mind) · ko 관념 (something understood and retained in the mind) · bg конце́пция (something understood and retained in the mind) · hu koncepció (something understood and retained in the mind) · vi khái niệm (something understood and retained in the mind) · ja コンセプト (something understood and retained in the mind) · cmn 觀念 /观念 (something understood and retained in the mind) · hu fogalom (something understood and retained in the mind) · et mõiste (something understood and retained in the mind) · uk поня́ття (something understood and retained in the mind) · eo koncepto (something understood and retained in the mind) · grc σύλληψις (something understood and retained in the mind) · mn ойлголт (something understood and retained in the mind) · it ipotesi (something understood and retained in the mind) · ru конце́пция (something understood and retained in the mind) · uz tushuncha (something understood and retained in the mind) · kk тұжырымдама (something understood and retained in the mind) · pl pojęcie (something understood and retained in the mind) · lo ແນວຄວາມຄິດ (something understood and retained in the mind) · az məfhum (something understood and retained in the mind) · nl concept (something understood and retained in the mind) · cmn 概念 (something understood and retained in the mind) · kk ұғым (something understood and retained in the mind) · hu elképzelés (something understood and retained in the mind) · tr mefhum (something understood and retained in the mind) · id konsep (something understood and retained in the mind) · af konsep (something understood and retained in the mind) · be канцэ́пцыя (something understood and retained in the mind) · hy կոնցեպցիա (something understood and retained in the mind) · ia concepto (something understood and retained in the mind) · ru иде́я (something understood and retained in the mind)