Alliance for Mystical Pragmatics

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Harmonizing Evolutionary Convergence

Glossary Menus

kap-

PIE base ‘to grasp’. See also dek- ‘to take’.

Derivatives, other than those listed below, include have, heavy, cable, captive, deceive, capsule, chassis, behove, and German Begriff ‘term, concept, notion, idea’.

[Pokorny *kap-, pp. 527–528.]

concept formation

In Integral Relational Logic, all concepts are formed by carefully observing the similar differences and different similarities in the data patterns of experience, a general way of bringing order to the chaos the world is in today, which David Bohm used to unify the incompatibilities between quantum and relativity theories with his theory of the Implicate Order.

concept

The Oxford Companion to the Mind defines concept as “an abstraction or general notion that may serve as a unit (or an ‘atom’) of a theory”, going on to say, “we cannot see at all clearly into our minds by introspection.” Two key points arise from these statements.