Quotes About Concepts

All organizations must be capable of change. We need concepts and measurements that give to other kinds of organizations what the market test and profitability yardstick give to business. Those tests and yardsticks will be quite different.

For van Fraassen, when a theory passes a lot of tests and becomes well established, the right attitude to have toward the theory is to accept it, in a special sense. To accept a theory is to (z) believe (provisionally) that the theory is empirically adequate, and to (z) use the concepts the theory provides when thinking about further problems and when trying to extend and refine the theory.

Religion refers to concepts, rituals, experiences, and institutions that humans construct based upon their belief in the supernatural, otherworldly, or spiritual. For

Relation of word to object . . . what is a word? Arbitrary sign. But we live in words. Our reality, among words not things. No such thing as thing anyhow; a gestalt in the mind.

As you experience a growth of your cortex area. You'll have many new and exciting concepts occur to you, especially of a religious nature.

We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.

The choice one makes between partners, between one man and another, stretches beyond romance. It is the choice between values, possibilities, futures, hopes, arguments (shared concepts that fit the world as you experience it), languages (shared words that fit the world as you believe it to be) and lives.

Ne?manoma prad?ti racionalaus dialogo su žmogumi apie tik?jimus ir s?vokas, jeigu jis j? ne?gijo protu. Ir nesvarbu, apie k? mes kalbame: apie Diev?, ras? ar pasididžiavim? savo t?vyne

An equality of nation will never exist in our lifetime. Why? Because peace, freedom, and justice are deceptive concepts. Hidden beneath their surface are the instincts of the peking order.

Steven Toulmin's very insightful analysis and critique of Kuhn is found in his outstanding analysis of conceptual change Human Understanding: The Collective Use and Evaluation of Human Concepts (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1972

Perceptions employed as a base for building up positive concepts are the origin of all ignorance (avidya);[1] perception that there is nothing to perceive — that is nirvana, also known as deliverance.

I'm all for teaching about important concepts like consent; I'm also very aware of how damaging and destructive it can be to be a victim of sexual harassment.

Relaxing, getting wild and free, those were all alien concepts for her.

The avant-garde is a connotation, every act here is a connotative value. The whole series of avant-garde movements do not signify, and yet their concepts are reconnotation.

I have never found a better way to enhance the communications process than by reinforcing the points or concepts I wish to make with timely, memorable quotations.

Jargon marks the place where thinking has been. It becomes a kind of macro, to use a computer term: a way of storing a complicated sequence of thinking operations under a unique name.

Ideas are the source of all things

The greatest of all logical truths, and the one of which writers on philosophy are most apt to lose sight, the difference between words and things, has been most strenuously insisted on by him (cp. Rep.; Polit.; Cratyl), although he has not always avoided the confusion of them in his own writings (e.g. Rep.).

La filosofía es la geometría de las ideas

All human knowledge thus begins with intuitions, proceeds thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.

Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.

since the strong materialistic substructure that lies under most concepts of socialism seems to oblige socialists to reject nonmaterial phenomena out of hand and without inspection of facts.

Thundering echoes of it persist in today's wage-slavery concepts