An abstract general conception; a notion; a universal.

From OWL Web Ontology Language Guide ( 2004-02-10) informal term for the abstractions "in the world" that ontologies describe

See Idea.

a general notion around which ideas are developed

A mental image of anything; can be used as the basis for grouping y common features or similar criteria.

A mental construct that frames a set of examples sharing common attributes. Concepts may be very broad such as “change,” system,” or interdependence.” They may also be more topic specific, such as “organism,” habitat,” or “government.

the mental representation of a process or object. Every entry in the ontology is a concept.

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a class or group of items which share a unique combination of critical attributes not shared by other groups, and can be referred to by the same generic name or symbol

a common feature or characteristic

a general property that we judge different particular objects to share

an identity of a group of objects, events that share some common characteristics

a great initiative

an early planning stage in the development of a research initiative (a program announcement, request for applications, or request for proposals)

a new international research initiative to consolidate all scientific efforts under NASCO guidance, and to concentrate on finding the problems of salmon mortality at sea

an initial important step in the right direction

an organizing principle that subsumes a variety of intuitions and refers the intuition as intuitions of objects

a special unary predicate that denotes a set, as with Eagle and Number

a subset of all perceptions

the active species of representation, by means of which our under­standing enables us to think. By requiring perceptions to conform to the categories, concepts serve as 'rules' allowing us to perceive general relations be­tween representations. (Cf. intuition.)

a constituent of thought that is apt for being the content of a judgment or a belief

a product looking for reality

Used as meaning an opinion or belief about Being; an interpretation or language having neither substance nor reality; not the Being itself.

Defined as an aspect of thought, a concept is a kind of unit in terms of which one thinks. Concepts are not to be confused with the terms that refer to them. Different terms can refer to one concept and more than one concept can be referred to by one term.

a different grouping of people, a different outfit, a different set of toys or props, or a different location

a set of requirements on some type

a set of requirements that a type (or a set of related types) must fulfill to be used correctly in generic algorithms

responding differentially to any varying member of a set of like stimuli, to the exclusion of all other stimuli outside of the set. A concept has a set of varying attributes, and is demarcated from other concepts by close-in nonattributes.

a being of reason

a string that represents the high-level reason for the NPC's speech attempt

Observation and experimentation are the basis of scientific reasoning

a bit of comprehension that possesses universal characteristics that are not bound by time and space

a theoretical expression of this universal

Matter and energy in the universe are governed by physical laws.

a brawny vehicle true to its "Built Ford Tough" heritage

a statement that will be true about the final product

a true discussion of context and the way all those disciplines interact

a more realistic way of meeting today's business service needs

a realistic vision of the sports-coupe future

a scaled-down version of the original vision