Latin language which gave up the ghost in the mysterious concepts and enigmatical expressions of St. Boniface and St. Adhelm.
There is no perception, no representation, no grouping of presentations into concepts, and of concepts into judgments and reasoning.
He denies himself all higher comprehension, the elaboration of perceptions into concepts, and the classification of the conceptsin the experiences which, as general knowledge, pre-exist in his consciousness.
The olfactory perceptions only furnish a minimum contribution to the concepts which are formed out of ideational elements.
A modification of moral conceptsis evidently possible only if there are moral concepts; but this is exactly the problem--‘are there moral concepts?
But how can the evolution, the transformation, of moral concepts in any way contradict the fundamental fact of the existence of moral concepts?
Nor has he the means for directly reproducing the sensible phenomenon itself, but he must first translate the phenomenon into concepts under a linguistic, i.
Revolutionary concepts were so modified and assimilated that the efforts of the dynasties, when put to the test of public opinion, failed because they were felt to be absurd by the masses.
Weary and sick to death of concepts and relationships and reason, at length he escapes to the garden.
They seem to me to be concepts supposed to be formed in the absence of language.
Base your spiritual concepts on the latest developments of Evolution.
All the way through, the use of European concepts compelled whole series of unwarranted parallels.
The most important of these widely propagandized concepts was that of the Chinese Empire.
We construct concepts when we represent them in intuition a priori, without experience, or when we represent in intuition the object which corresponds to our concept of it.
To mathematics in particular fall those relations between objects which involve the concepts of magnitude, of measure and of number.
In order to comprehend and fully control arithmetical concepts and methods of proof, a high degree of abstraction is necessary, and this condition has at times been charged against arithmetic as a fault.
The apodictic quality of mathematical thought, the certainty and correctness of its conclusions, are due, not to a special mode of ratiocination, but to the character of the concepts with which it deals.
But the representation of functions by curves or surfaces reveals a new world of concepts and teaches the use of one of the most fruitful methods, which the human mind ever employed to increase its own effectiveness.
The principal characteristics of the ancient geometry are:-- (1) A wonderful clearness and definiteness of its concepts and an almost perfect logical rigour of its conclusions.
The mathematicalconcepts of constant and variable are represented familiarly in life by the notions of fixedness and change.
It is not Cayley's way to analyzeconcepts into their ultimate elements.
From one point of view mathematics may be defined as the science of successive substitutions of simpler concepts for more complex.
The Normans used the Anglo-Saxon conceptsof jurisdictional powers.
In this way, conceptsof Roman law used by the Normans found their way into English law.
This new manner of holding land: "fee tail", is in addition to the concepts of land held in fee simple and land held for life.
The courts did rough but substantial justice without distinction between concepts such as tort and contract.
The fact that the conceptsof science are selected, and only inadequately true of reality, should not be taken to mean that they are sportive or arbitrary.
No philosophy of science is sound which does not primarily seek by an analysis of scientific concepts to understand science on its own grounds.
As in the case of logic, a strong impulse has manifested itself in æsthetics to deal with groups of objects that lie within its province, rather than directly with its concepts and principles.
The philosopher falls into error no less radical than that of the dogmatic scientist, when he charges the scientist with untruth, and attaches to his concepts the predicate of unreality.
Even in the years of infancy an ennobling personal relationship begins, despite the inadequacy of their beliefs, and that trust yearly deepens while mental concepts shift and change with access of new knowledge.
Men, endeavoring to frame some worthy thought of the Eternal, lift up their best in phrases such as these, and in them enshrine their noblest concepts of the divine.
The comparisons then grow more manifold and numerous, the fields of facts compared more extensive, the concepts that make direct description possible, proportionately more general and more abstract.
In fact, positive and philosophical philology both claim to have established that all roots represent concepts and stood originally for muscular activities alone.
For the physicist, to take a special case, the metrical units are the building-stones, the concepts the directions for building, and the facts the result of the building.
The concepts of force, mass, and work are then carried over, with appropriate modifications, to the phenomena of electricity and magnetism.
Innate concepts of the understanding, Kant on, 199.
The antiquity of man, and the Philosophy of Evolution, had opened new fields for thought, and necessitated a revision of all previous concepts of man and nature.
It is thus that our concepts of nature have been enlarged, refined, and actually spiritualized.
As man advances in knowledge through the combined experiences of his spiritual nature and his physical embodiment, his beliefs change, his horizon enlarges, and his concepts become elevated and purified.
The various concepts and doctrines of rewards and punishments hereafter, have put ulterior motives in the place of actual values, weakened the will and hindered man from doing his best.
Our concepts of Nature, of Life, and of Man have been almost immeasurably enlarged, refined, and elevated.
On the other hand, no confusion of ethical concepts is involved in attributing goodness to the performance of a duty, or, in other words, praising a man for an act the omission of which would have incurred blame.
This coincidence, again, undoubtedly bears testimony both to the emotional basis of the moral concepts and to the retributive character of the moral emotions.
The ultimate reason for this is, that the moralconcepts are based upon emotions, and that the contents of an emotion fall entirely outside the category of truth.
That such is really the case will, I think, become evident from the present chapter, in which the principal of those concepts will be analysed.
There will then be a discussion of the phenomena to which such concepts are applied--the subjects of moral judgments.
The terms which embody these concepts must originally have been used--indeed they still constantly are so used--as direct expressions of such emotions with reference to the phenomena which evoked them.
However, as is frequently the case with general terms, these concepts are mentioned without any distinct idea of their contents.
Thought deals with no bloodless concepts but watches things move under its microscope.
It has no way of bringing together any two concepts which do not happen to stand one under the other and in the same pyramid.
According to this logic, thought deals with abstractions, concepts drawn out of things by a sifting process.
What if the very concepts we employ in reasoning should exemplify the universal flow of life?
The introduction of contradiction into logical concepts as their sine qua non meant indeed a revolutionary departure from traditional logic.
As Professor James says "The essence of life is its continuously changing character; but our concepts are all discontinuous and fixed .
But are our concepts static, fixed, and discontinuous?
They were to put family problems on a back burner; their energy was devoted to learning to apply the concepts of transactional analysis.
In his codes of manners, of morals, of laws, in his early concepts of God, his ancient religions, we see masculinity written large on every side.
Thus, in however manifold connection with other concepts his concept 'red' may be repeated, it is to him as a concept always one and the same only.
Hence the concepts of the child have less content and more extent than those of adults.
Indeed, the inferences that attach themselves to the first concepts will resemble those which were developed in the mother or will be identical with them; these concepts have, then, hereditary properties.
In any case the intelligent child forms many concepts of a lower sort without any knowledge of words at all, and he therefore performs abstraction without words.
For the power of forming concepts must have manifested itself in the primitive man, as is actually the case in the infant, by movements of many sorts before articulate language existed.
Nothing, being dead, space"--these are concepts of a very high order for them.
The concepts "male being" and "open" are thus not only clear, but are already named with the right words.
It was asked only to be answered in such a way as to reinforce egotistical concepts of culture.
Culture had leaped past Earth in all directions, had leaped so far that he could not even recognize it as such, had encompassed the stars and broad new concepts as big as the parsecs of space between the stars.
The concepts parasitism, predatism, and symbiosis have all been used with various shades of meaning by different authors.
The problem is not solved merely by accepting as authoritative specific definitions, however apt they seem to be, because, unfortunately, these concepts are not mutually exclusive.
Concepts of the intangible and invisible are only learned through percepts of tangible and visible objects, whether finally expressed to the eye or to the ear, in terms of sight or of sound.
No one has taught her how to put the later, more spiritual concepts into language for the child of our day.
His faith, affections, aspirations, and endeavors turn toward persons, institutions, and concepts which are to him ideal.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "concepts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
