Concept vs Understanding - What's the difference?
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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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, date = 2011-07-20
, author = Edwin Mares
, title = Propositional Functions
, site = The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
, url = http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2011/entries/propositional-function
, accessdate = 2012-07-15 }}
* {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
, author=(Jan Sapp)
, title=Race Finished
, volume=100, issue=2, page=164
, magazine=(American Scientist)
(programming) In generic programming, a description of supported operations on a type, including their syntax and semantics.
(uncountable) Mental, sometimes emotional process of comprehension, assimilation of knowledge, which is subjective by its nature.
(countable) Reason or intelligence, ability to grasp the full meaning of knowledge, ability to infer.
(countable) Opinion, judgement or outlook.
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, title= (countable) An informal contract, mutual agreement.
(countable) A reconciliation of differences.
(uncountable) Sympathy.
All that people individually sense and feel of themselves.
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, volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
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Concept is a related term of understanding.
As nouns the difference between concept and understanding
is that concept is 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) while understanding is (uncountable) mental, sometimes emotional process of comprehension, assimilation of knowledge, which is subjective by its nature.As an adjective understanding is
showing compassion.As a verb understanding is
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English
Noun
(en noun)- 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.
citation, passage=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 ?}}
Synonyms
* conception * notion * abstractionHyponyms
* conceptualization, conceptualisation, conceptuality * notion * scheme * rule, regulation * property, attribute, dimension * abstraction, abstract * quantity * part, section, division * whole * law, natural law, law of nature * hypothesis * possibility * theory * fact * ruleDerived terms
* concept car * concept map * high-concept * macroconcept * microconcept * primitive concept * proof of conceptSee also
* essential * fundamental * idea * meaning * pattern * thoughtExternal links
* * * (wikipedia "concept") * ----understanding
English
(wikipedia understanding)Noun
The machine of a new soul, passage=The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure.}}
See also
* intellectionVerb
(head)Fantasy of navigation, passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; […]; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment.}}