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1. concepts

   Concepts are defined as abstract ideas. They are understood to be the fundamental building blocks of the concept behind principles, thoughts and beliefs. They play an important role in all aspects of cognition. As such, concepts are studied by several disciplines, such as linguistics, psychology, and philosophy, and these disciplines are interested in the logical and psychological structure of concepts, and how they are put together to form thoughts and sentences. The study of concepts has served as an important flagship of an emerging interdisciplinary approach called cognitive science.In contemporary philosophy, there are at least three prevailing ways to understand what a concept is: Concepts as mental representations, where concepts are entities that exist in the mind (mental objects) Concepts as abilities, where concepts are abilities peculiar to cognitive agents (mental states) Concepts as Fregean senses, where concepts are abstract objects, as opposed to mental objects and mental statesConcepts can be organized into a hierarchy, higher levels of which are termed "superordinate" and lower levels termed "subordinate". Additionally, there is the "basic" or "middle" level at which people will most readily categorize a concept. For example, a basic-level concept would be "chair", with its superordinate, "furniture", and its subordinate, "easy chair". Concepts may be exact, or inexact. When the mind makes a generalization such as the concept of tree, it extracts similarities from numerous examples; the simplification enables higher-level thinking. A concept is instantiated (reified) by all of its actual or potential instances, whether these are things in the real world or other ideas. Concepts are studied as components of human cognition in the cognitive science disciplines of linguistics, psychology, and philosophy, where an ongoing debate asks whether all cognition must occur through concepts. Concepts are regularly formalized in mathematics, computer science, databases and artificial intelligence. Examples of specific high-level conceptual classes in these fields include classes, schema or categories. In informal use the word concept often just means any idea.

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1. Concepts

   Concepts is a 1992 sixteen-disc box set compilation of the U.S. singer Frank Sinatra. This sixteen CD set is the first major compilation from an entire era of Sinatra's career. This particular set contains every studio album from years with Capitol Records. It also includes the instrumental album Frank Sinatra Conducts Tone Poems of Color, which was new to compact disc with this set. However, it does not include any singles compilations or soundtracks Sinatra released on the label.

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1. conceptsnoun

   Plural noun of the word concept.

   The roboticist presented his concepts to the robot designers and the robotics team and they proceeded to put together a plan to design, test, build his concepts.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on July 8, 2016  

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1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'concepts' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3546

How to pronounce concepts?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say concepts in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of concepts in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of concepts in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of concepts in a Sentence

1. Hillary Clinton:

   I don't want to overpromise, i don't want to come out with theories and concepts that may or may not be possible. We don't need any more of that.

2. Alef Education CEO Geoffrey Alphonso:

   We capture millions of data points on a daily basis, a human could not process that many data points, what we do with that data is we look at machine-learning algorithms that can actually identify struggling concepts, mastery of different lessons.

3. Lloyd Austin:

   What we need is the right mix of technology, operational concepts and capabilities -- all woven together in a networked way that is so credible, flexible and formidable that it will give any adversary pause, we need to create advantages for us and dilemmas for them.

4. Professor Levin:

   Our study challenges the established notion of how the continents on which we live behave, it challenges the textbook concepts taught in introductory geology classes.

5. David Tal:

   Food-related technology like 3D food printers, robot chefs and fully automated fast food restaurants represent experiments or proof of concepts, there’s still about five to10 years worth of testing, federal regulation approvals and general cost reductions in robotics involved before this tech goes mainstream.

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