ONT Concept
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| Concept.
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| In logic synonymous either with 'propositional function' (q.v.) generally or
| with 'monadic propositional function'. The terminology associated with the
| word 'function' is not, however, usually employed in connection with the
| word 'concept', and the latter word may serve to avoid ambiguities which
| have arisen from loose or variant usages of the word 'function' (q.v.);
| or it may reflect a difference in point of view. (Alonzo Church).
|
| In scholasticism: the "word of the mind" ('verbum mentis')
| by which the possible intellect expresses (therefore also
| in later writers 'species expressa') the universal nature
| disengaged by the "active intellect" [AI] from the phantasm
| and transmitted as 'species intelligibilis' to the possible
| intellect. (Rudolf Allers).
|
| In Kant: In the strict sense, any generic or class term, exclusive
| of relational terms or categories. Sometimes, loosely, any general
| or abstract representation. (Otto F. Kraushaar).
|
| In Husserl:
| 1. An expressible sense.
| 2. An eidos as intended.
| (Dorion Cairns).
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| Dagobert Runes (ed.), 'Dictionary of Philosophy',
| Littlefield, Adams, & Company, Totowa, NJ, 1972.
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