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Definition of Concepts
1. concept [n] - See also: concept
Lexicographical Neighbors of Concepts
Literary usage of Concepts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Present Philosophical Tendencies: A Critical Survey of Naturalism, Idealism by Ralph Barton Perry (1912)
"In this case the remedy for the short-comings of concepts would be more ...
It is charged that concepts are such that they can never serve as means of ..."
2. Logic by Christoph Sigwart (1895)
"The forms of synthesis, when we are dealing with the concepts expressing ...
That unity of conceptual elements which is contained in the concepts of ..."
3. Modern Classical Philosophers: Selections Illustrating Modern Philosophy by Benjamin Rand (1908)
"Now it is clear that pure concepts of the understanding, as compared with ...
In all other sciences in which the concepts by which the object is thought in ..."
4. An Introductory Logic by James Edwin Creighton (1909)
"concepts and judgment. —In the last section, we endeavoured to show that Judgment
is the elementary process of thought, and that with it all knowledge ..."
5. History of Philosophy by Alfred Weber (1904)
"I. Logic, or Genealogy of Pure concepts 1. Quality, Quantity, Measure* The common
root of the categories or pure concepts is the notion of being, ..."
6. Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic by William Hamilton (1860)
"A. OF concepts IX GENERAL. I CONCLUDED, in my last lecture, all that I think it
necessary to say in regard to the Fundamental Laws of Thought, ..."
7. Ethics: An Investigation of the Facts and Laws of the Moral Life by Wilhelm Max Wundt (1901)
"They simply include the various tendencies of the moral will under certain general
concepts which are derived by abstraction from particular facts, ..."
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