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concept

TECHNICAL TERM DETAILS (English)

Term concept
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Definition A general term for a universal, a category, or a mental label. A concept of something need not be verbal. For example, one has a concept of what a pretty face looks like, what one's mother looks like, what a good soup tastes like, what a properly tuned guitar sounds like, what a valid line of reasoning is, what one plus one equals, and so on.

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German Konzept
French concept
Italian concetto
Jeffrey Hopkins En, Ti... conceptual consciousness; conceptuality; imputation; investigation; conceptual thought; thought
Russian концепция
Vietnamese khái niệm