| Term |
conceptual category
Referenced by: generality (alternative term) universal (alternative term) |
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| Tibetan | spyi |
| Sanskrit | |
| Pali | |
| Definition | (1) A general term for both audio categories and meaning/object categories. Some translators render the term as "universal" or "generality." (2) A set to which individual items sharing a common defining characteristic belong. It is mentally constructed (mentally fabricated) by a mental synthesis of individual items that are instances of it, or by a mental synthesis of the spatial, sensorial, and/or temporal parts on which it is imputed (labeled). Sometimes translated as "mental synthesis" or just "synthesis." |
| German | konzeptuelle Kategorie |
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| Jeffrey Hopkins En, Ti... | generality; general; all; universal |
| Russian | концептуальная категория |