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conceptualize, v.|kənˈsɛptjuːəlaɪz|
[f. conceptual a. + -ize.]
trans. To form a concept or idea of. Also absol.
1909W. James Pluralistic Universe vi. 253 When we conceptualize, we cut out and fix, and exclude everything but what we have fixed. 1912Von Hügel Eternal Life x. 293 The reality which intuition grasps, and which is thus to be conceptualized, contains some permanence. 1927Brit. Weekly 3 Feb. 462/1 Jesus is lost in the attempt to conceptualise Him. 1936Burlington Mag. Nov. 222/2 Did the painter tend to conceptualize its initial visual actuality. 1937R. H. Lowie Hist. Ethnol. Theory xii. 209 He labels the source of his emotion by some word describing the extraordinariness he feels, and cares not in the least about accurately conceptualizing it in the abstract. 1950Theology LIII. 131 Essence can be conceptualized, but existence can only be affirmed. 1959Times Lit. Suppl. 6 Nov. 639/3 Mrs. Moskowitz still struggles to conceptualize; Miss Caravello still upholds the culture of the Latins.
Hence conˈceptualized ppl. a.; conˈceptualizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.; conˌceptuaˈlizable a.; conˌceptualiˈzation.
1878S. H. Hodgson Phil. Reflection I. ii. v. 325 The conceptualising process..lands us in the Aristotelian distinction of genus, differentia, and species, which may be..called the logical categories. These categories are not found ready made in thought, but are products of the process of conceptualising the chains of perceptual redintegration. 1896W. Caldwell Schopenhauer's Syst. iii. 116 He found in conceptions only the form of philosophy—philosophy being a conceptualised or generalised statement of the matter of our knowledge, of ordinary reality. 1909W. James Pluralistic Universe vii. 290 Vainly seeking to describe by concepts and words what I say at the same time exceeds either conceptualization or verbalization. Ibid. viii. 326 Artificial products of the conceptualizing faculty. 1929Times Lit. Suppl. 12 Dec. 1046 The formally colder conceptualization of the ‘Philebus’. 1949Koestler Insight & Outlook xxiv. 345 The primitive poetic quality of the Bushman language as compared to the conceptualized statement is obvious. 1950Theology LIII. 132 What however will be the result of this if there are important aspects of reality which are not clearly conceptualizable? 1957L. F. Brosnahan Genes & Phonemes 8 The psychologist..is able to analyse the mode of operation of any sensory apparatus into a series of processes, namely, those of perceptual selection and organisation, perceptual generalisation, and, on the border between perception and thought, that of conceptualisation. |