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Working Definition:
A concept is a domain, ("A coherent area of conceptualization relative to which semantic units may be characterized' Langacker, Foundations of Cognitive Grammar, 488).
Disciplinary Definitions:
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"A concept is a mental representation or idea that includes a description of important properties of a class or tem." Eysenck, The Blackwell Dictionary of Cognitive Psychology, 77
"A concept is that which is understood by a term, particularly a predicate. To possess a concept is to be able to deploy a term expressing it in making judgements: the ability connects with such things as recognizing when the term applies, and being able to understand the consequences of its application" Blackburn, The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy.
Comments:
The distinctions among concepts, domains, and mental spaces seem to be more of individual working terminological sets (Eysenck, Langacker, or Fauconnier) than of reference to a discrete phenomenon. Underlying the three terms is a common phenomenon--mental "computation or connection" and its representation
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I wish to use the term, concept, in a way that is consistent with Fauconnier, Lakoff, and Langacker.
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