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ˈpseudo-concept Philos.
Also without hyphen.
[f. pseudo- + concept n.]
A notion which is sometimes treated as a concept though it cannot be properly conceptualized or grasped by the mind.
1866H. L. Mansel Philos. of Conditioned 93 It is not to be wondered at..that our positive conception of God as a Person cannot be included under this pseudo-concept of the Infinite. 1901A. E. Taylor Probl. Conduct viii. 439 The religious experience..may for all we know prove to be itself a mere illusion, and the Absolute a mere pseudo⁓concept. 1917D. Ainslie tr. Croce's Logic ii. 37 ‘Conceptual fictions’ is a manner of speech... For brevity's sake we shall call them pseudoconcepts. 1937Mind XLVI. 228 The consequence is rigidly deduced that the ‘transcendent’ One cannot even without contradiction be said to be One; thus it is apparently a ‘pseudo-concept’. 1956J. O. Urmson Philos. Analysis 91 There are two objects with a certain relation between them, in spite of the fact that the concept ‘object’, thus used, is a metaphysical pseudo-concept. 1967Encycl. Philos. II. 266/2 The work of economists, like that of all other scientists, belongs to the category of utility itself, not to that of truth. ‘Economic man’ is a paradigm case of a pseudo concept. |