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conceptual, a.|kənˈsɛptjuːəl|
[ad. med.L. conceptuāl-is (used e.g. by Walter Burley c 1360), f. conceptu-s a conceiving + -al1: in mod.F. conceptuel.]
†1. ? That is conceived or taken into the mind.
1662J. Chandler Van Helmont's Oriat. 280 Seeing all madnesse doth arise from a budding or flourishing, conceptual, foreign Idea implanted into anothers ground. Ibid. 341 A certain conceptual, irrational and bestial disturbance.
2. Of, pertaining to, or relating to mental conceptions or concepts. Esp. in conceptual analysis, conceptual knowledge, conceptual scheme, conceptual system, conceptual thinking.
a1834Coleridge Lit. Rem. III. 260 This pregnant idea is not within the sphere of conceptual logic, that is, of the understanding. 1880M. Pattison Milton xiii. 181 The conceptual incongruities in Paradise Lost. 1885W. James in Mind X. 39 The whole field of symbolic or conceptual thinking. 1890― Princ. Psychol. I. viii. 222 Of the mental states of other persons we only have conceptual knowledge. Ibid. xii. 482 The conceptual scheme is a sort of sieve in which we try to gather up the world's contents. Ibid. II. xvii. 7 Conceptual systems which neither began nor left off in sensations would be like bridges without piers. 1896W. Caldwell Schopenhauer's Syst. viii. 415 Our practical apprehension of things is far greater in range and in potency than our merely reflective or conceptual analysis of reality. 1929C. I. Lewis Mind & World-Order viii. 271 There may be alternative conceptual systems, giving rise to alternative descriptions of experience, which are equally objective and equally valid. 1949Mind LVIII. 214 Conceptual analysis..is not concerned with usages, but with the concepts and propositions expressed by verbal expressions. 1951F. Thilly Hist. Philos. (1952) iii. 77 Conceptual knowledge..is the only genuine knowledge: that was the teaching of Socrates. 1955S. Körner (title) Conceptual Thinking. 1960A. J. Ayer Philos. & Lang. 33 There is..a danger in following Kant too closely. It consists in..assuming that certain fundamental features of our own conceptual system are necessities of language. 1960J. Cohen Chance, Skill & Luck ii. 47 There is the possibility that psychological probability may provide a single conceptual scheme for the study of how we perceive, think, learn, decide, and act. |