concept

Japanese: concept
concept

...As is clear from the fact that the etymology of the modern Western words equivalent to concept (English, French concept, German Begriff) means "to encompass" or "to grasp," a concept refers to a fundamental form of object comprehension in humans, or more broadly, in living organisms, that comprehensively and generally grasps multiple objects rather than individual objects, so-called "individuals." Ideas, thoughts, ideas, etc. are also considered to be synonymous, and for example, the concept of "dog" can evoke the mental image or image of a singular or multiple dogs, so concept is often used to mean both mental image and image, or is often identified with them. ...

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "concept" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…概念に相当する現代西欧語(英語,フランス語concept,ドイツ語Begriff)の語源が〈包括する〉〈把握する〉等を意味することからも明らかなように,概念とは,個々の対象,いわゆる個物(個体)よりも複数の個物を包括的,概括的に捕捉する,人間,広くは生物体の対象把握の一根本的形式とその成果をいう。観念,思念,想念等も同類語と考えられ,また,たとえば〈犬〉という概念が単数,複数の犬の心象,イメージを想い起こさせることなどもあって,概念は心象,イメージも合わせて意味し,あるいはそれらと同一視されることがまれでない。…

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