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a general concept that marks divisions or coordinations in a conceptual scheme
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a class of objects or things that share something in common within a conceptual scheme
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a concept abstracted from concrete reality and, according to a fundamental law of logic, its meaning decreases in the proportion in which its generality increases
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a pure concept of the understanding
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An a priori concept: "Concepts of an jbject, which is determined in respect of one of the logical fuinctions of judgement""Categories are concepts which prescribe laws a priori to the appearances and therefore to nature" "How things actually are (their objective reality) depends on the a priori conditions"
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contains an individual descriptive category, possibly nested within a superordinate category, within a user-defined taxonomy.
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A component within a taxonomy. JAXR concepts are implemented in CentraSite as categories.
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