23 December
Quondam
Quondam's collection
mural @ Altes Museum
Campo Marzio
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Do dictionaries help us understand?
2000.12.23
Deshler-Morris House
P.S.F.S Logan Branch
2001.12.23
shock in Philadelphia
2001.12.23 12:00
Re: Void to Avoid
2001.12.23 12:00
2001.12.23 22:04
Re: ROME
2001.12.23 13:28
Re: Ubiquitious computing
2001.12.23 15:40
Battle of Trenton, etc.
2001.12.23 16:11
"better things to do"
2001.12.23
01122301.db ICM, plans
Re: These Muschampian NYTimes
2002.12.23 14:17
how do I change what I do?
2002.12.23
his Remness
2004.12.23 09:54
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Gothic Architecture
2004.12.23 18:54
Napkin Sketches
2005.12.23 12:57
2005.12.23 13:06
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23 Dec - Who's at work today
2005.12.23 13:03
What are you researching?
2005.12.23 15:24
What's good in your hood
2005.12.23 15:51
Jimmy Venturi's new website...
2005.12.23 16:06
OMA wins in Shenzhen
2006.12.23 09:28
River City Fantasies
2006.12.23 09:46
synaesthesia
2006.12.23 11:03
2006.12.23 15:54
pragmatists turning political?
2008.12.23 14:32
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Do dictionaries help us understand?
2000.12.23
Tad offers:
So, let me offer an experimental definition of 'concept.' A concept is the result of an insight, and the base for a word, an explanation, or a design. First, it's the result of an insight. That is, it issues from the act of understanding, getting the point, grasping an order, putting two and two together, designing, interpreting, getting an answer to questions Why or How. The insight is an event, an occurrence. You get my meaning here not by looking up all my words, but by consulting your experience of understanding anything.
Steve asks and states:
Tad, did not your experiment above just reenact the general definitions of the Latin 'concipio', the word from which the English word concept comes from?
The definition of 'concipio' is to take or lay hold of, to take to one's self, to take in, take, receive, and (1B1) to take or receive fecundation, to conceive, become pregnant, and (2A) to take or sense or seize something by the sence of sight, and (2B1) to preceive in mind.
Is not your "result of an insight" a reenactment of "to take or sense or seize something by the sence of sight," and is not your "grasping an order" a reenactment of "to take or lay hold of," and is not your "putting two and two together," a reenactment of "to conceive, become pregnant?"
Can you honestly say that your experiment did not just repeat the Latin 'understanding' of 'concipio'?
For me, your experiment did not reveal anything new about 'concept', rather something very old about 'concept'.
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