Conceptual definition

kən-sĕpcho͝o-əl
Of or relating to conceptualism.
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The definition of conceptual is something having to do with the mind, or with mental concepts or philosophical or imaginary ideas.

An example of conceptual is when you formulate an abstract philosophy to explain the world which cannot be proven or seen.

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Of, or relating to concepts or mental conception; existing in the imagination.

We defined a conceptual model before designing the real thing.

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Of or having to do with a concept or concepts.
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Of or relating to concepts or mental conception.

Conceptual discussions that antedated development of the new product.

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Of, or relating to conceptualism.
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Origin of conceptual

  • Medieval Latin conceptuālis from Late Latin conceptus a thought concept

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Medieval Latin conceptuālis, from Latin conceptus, perfect passive participle of concipio (“take hold of; conceive”); see concept and -al.

    From Wiktionary

Conceptual Sentence Examples

  • Conceptual logic, on the other hand, is false from the start.

  • The conceptual logic has made the mistake of making ideation a stage in thought prior to judgment.

  • He starts, that is in logic, with conceptual units apparently self-contained and admitting of nothing but external relation, but proceeds to justify the intrinsic relation between the matter of his units by an appeal to the fact of the coherence of all contents of thought.

  • Their point is to stretch Hume's phenomenalism so as to embrace all science, by contending that mechanism is not at the bottom of phenomena, but is only the conceptual shorthand by aid of which men of 'science can briefly describe phenomena, and that all science is description and not explanation.

  • Hence arose conceptual logic; according to which conception is a simple apprehension of an idea without belief in being or not being, e.g.

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