concept

ology (the study of)

term

reality

is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.

A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window. Gilles Deleuze

is a composite, an amalgam of lines and curves.

concepts are composites, amalgams of lines, curves' (Deleuze Negotiations 147).

is a defective, unstable entity which does not coincide with itself, there is always something lacking or excessive in a concept.

For Zizek, concepts are essentially defective, they do not really coincide with themselves, there is always something lacking or excessive in a concept. This may be seen as another expression of his view of ontological incompleteness. Namely that universe itself is not fully constituted.'

is a grouping of more or less definite images designating frequently recurring and associated sensations, groups of sensations.

Words are sounds designating concepts... concepts, however, are more or less definite images designating frequently recurring and associated sensations, groups of sensations. To understand one another it is not sufficient to employ the same words... we have also to employ the same words to designate the same species of inner experiences, we must ultimately have our experience in common.' (BGE, IX: 268).

is a kind of objectivity that is constituted perspectivally, and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing and the more eyes we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our so-called objective concept of this thing be.

There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective 'knowing'... and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our 'concept' of this thing, our 'objectivity,' be. Friedrich Nietzsche

is a new way of thinking, just as a precept is a new way of seeing, just as an affect is a new way of feeling.

Style in philosophy strains toward three different poles: concepts, or new ways of thinking... percepts, or new ways of seeing and construing... and affects, or new ways of feeling. They're the philosophical trinity, philosophy as opera: you need all three to get things moving' (Deleuze Negotiations 165).

is a normative idea: A damaged or defective horse is not fully a horse, and an infant or a seed are only 'in concept' and have not fully realized their concept.

Concepts are, for Hegel (as for Plato), normative ideals: a damaged or defective horse is not fully a horse, and an infant or a seed are only 'in concept' and have not yet fully realized their concept. (Thus Begriff in Hegel often refers to the initial stage of an entity in contrast to its developed form.) In the case of categorical concepts, a low-level entity, such as a rock, does not fully match the concept, but only a low-level fragment of it, such as the concept of a thing with properties. (inwood 1992 : 60)

is a representation in which we bring before ourselves an object or entire regions of objects in general'.

Heidegger defined concepts as 'representations in which we bring before ourselves an object or entire regions of objects in general' (1998, 1).

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