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单词 pseudo-concept
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pseudo-conceptn.

Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊˈkɒnsɛpt/, U.S. /ˌsudoʊˈkɑnˌsɛpt/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pseudo- comb. form, concept n.
Etymology: < pseudo- comb. form + concept n.
A false or spurious concept; (Philosophy) a notion which is sometimes treated as a concept though it cannot be properly conceptualized or grasped by the mind.
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > faint, imperfect idea > [noun] > false
idolum1640
idolism1671
idol1678
fiction1828
pseudo-idea1863
pseudo-concept1866
the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > epistemology > [noun] > cognition > concept
conception1526
concept1561
conceit1576
representationa1602
notion1607
dicible1656
pseudo-concept1866
cogitatum1878
1866 H. 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.
1901 A. 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.
1917 D. Ainslie tr. B. Croce Logic ii. 37 ‘Conceptual fictions’ is a manner of speech... For brevity's sake we shall call them pseudoconcepts.
1949 H. Miller Community of Man iii. 30 Not a few biologists today assure their students that the whole idea of evolution is a fallacy or pseudoconcept.
1956 J. O. Urmson Philos. Anal. 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.
1970 A. D. Scaglione Ars Grammatica 38 This system taught him [sc. Trabalza] to think of grammar as a pseudo-concept invented for didactic purposes.
2000 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 11 Jan. 15 The argument is rather against multi-culturalism, because that pseudo-concept makes a mockery of what culture is.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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