Concept
A concept is an abstract[?], universal[?] mental entity that serves to designate a category or class of entities, events or relations.A concept is the element of a proposition rather in the way that a word is the element of a sentence. Concepts are abstract in that they omit the differences of the things in their extension, treating them as if they were identical. Concepts are universal in that they apply equally to every thing in their extension.
Concepts are bearers of meaning. A single concept can be expressed by any number of languages. The concept DOG can be expressed by 'hund' in German, 'chien' in French, 'perro' in Spanish. The fact that concepts are in some sense language independent makes translation possible; words in various languages "mean the same" because they express one and the same concept.
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Theories of concepts: classical; prototype; externalist Concept acquisition v. nativism;
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distress, would swim off to her with provisions and fruit, bearing
sides, despatched them at leisure, without unseemly outcry or
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those lawless pirates who infest the seas, having no colour of war
the Island wot of by the good and aged Devonshire divine--and so we
then sailed away, arriving after many years' absence at the Port of
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and bones made in the sign of a Cross--by the NAME my ship bore,
I shall be content with this writing. But alas! such are the
most of his friends beheaded, and the blessed King James of
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