A "concept" is a general, abstract idea that the human mind forms about a concrete or abstract object of thought. The term comes from the Latin cum capio: "to grasp together". It is an abstract ...

This is a reprint of a paper by Eugenia Hanfmann, PhD., of Worcester State Hospital and Jacob Kasanin, M.D., of the Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. It originally appeared in The Journal ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In order to understand the concept of an n-gon it can be characterized by a commutative diagram which is composed of four ways of judging a ...

The aim of the paper is to show that Avicenna's reorganization of the division of the predicables into a system of notions (ma'ānī) resulting in concept formation is the product of his attempt to ...