Concepts are groupings of phenomena and relationships in a given category and is similar to a general idea - which is an abstraction from several specific ideas. A concept has structure in that things are either contained by extensions to the concept or not.
Concepts can be blending by structural mapping. A class of conceptual blends are metaphors.
Thursday, November 15, 2007
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