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pre-concept Psychol.|priːˈkɒnsɛpt|
[f. pre- A. 2 + concept n.]
A term applied by Romanes to a higher recept (q.v.), or rudimentary concept: see quot. 1888.
1888Romanes Mental Evolut. Man ix. 185 Higher Recepts, then, are what may be conveniently termed Pre⁓concepts: they occupy the interval between the receptual life of brute and the earliest dawn of the conceptual life of man. A pre-concept, therefore, is that kind of higher recept which is not to be met with in any brute; but which occurs in the human being after surpassing the brute and before attaining self-consciousness. 1896Nat. Science Dec. 382 From this he argues that there is a logic of recepts in animals, and probably also a logic of preconcepts. |