Noun

(en noun)

An understanding retained in the mind, from experience, reasoning and/or imagination; a generalization (generic, basic form), or abstraction (mental impression), of a particular set of instances or occurrences (specific, though different, recorded manifestations of the concept).

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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.

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(programming)   In generic programming, a description of supported operations on a type, including their syntax and semantics.

Noun

(wikipedia speculation) (en noun)

The process of thinking or meditating on a subject.

* Milton

Thenceforth to speculations high or deep I turned my thoughts.

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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have ended months of intense speculation by announcing they are expecting their first child, but were forced to share their news earlier than hoped because of the Duchess's admission to hospital on Monday.

(philosophy) The act or process of reasoning a priori from premises given or assumed.

A conclusion to which the mind comes by speculating; mere theory; notion; conjecture.

* Sir W. Temple

From him Socrates derived the principles of morality, and most part of his natural speculations .

* Macaulay

To his speculations on these subjects he gave the lofty name of the "Oracles of Reason".

(business, finance) An investment involving higher-than-normal risk in order to obtain a higher-than-normal return.

The act or practice of buying land, goods, shares, etc., in expectation of selling at a higher price, or of selling with the expectation of repurchasing at a lower price; a trading on anticipated fluctuations in price, as distinguished from trading in which the profit expected is the difference between the retail and wholesale prices, or the difference of price in different markets.

* A. Smith

Sudden fortunes, indeed, are sometimes made in such places, by what is called the trade of speculation .

* F. A. Walker

Speculation , while confined within moderate limits, is the agent for equalizing supply and demand, and rendering the fluctuations of price less sudden and abrupt than they would otherwise be.

Examination by the eye; view.

(obsolete) Power of sight.

* Shakespeare

Thou hast no speculation in those eyes.

A card game in which the players buy from one another trumps or whole hands, upon a chance of getting the highest trump dealt, which entitles the holder to the pool of stakes.