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To him, hunger was an abstract concept; he always had enough to eat.
The concept is quite alien to our way of thinking.
The concept of zero sprang from the Hindu culture.
From this point we go on to an even more detailed examination of the concept of repression.
I must point out that we need to clarify the meaning of this over-used concept.
Before we examine Emmet's theory, we must clarify the concept of 'internal symmetry.'
I would like to focus attention on the particular design that best represents Emmet's concept.
We will begin by considering the concept of "quota".
I would like to put special emphasis on the concept that social ecology is the second school of contemporary environmentalism.
The bright boy comprehended the concept of geometry.
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The words conception, concept, notion, should be limited to the thought of what can not be represented in the imagination; as, the thought suggested by a general term.
Frege's concepts are very nearly propositional functions in the modern sense. Frege explicitly recognizes them as functions. Like Peirce's rhema, a concept is unsaturated. They are in some sense incomplete. Although Frege never gets beyond the metaphorical in his description of the incompleteness of concepts and other functions, one thing is clear: the distinction between objects and functions is the main division in his metaphysics. There is something special about functions that makes them very different from objects.
Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?
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