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In The Development of Science, Concepts Play An Important Role What Are Concepts, and Why Do We Need Them?
In The Development of Science, Concepts Play An Important Role What Are Concepts, and Why Do We Need Them?
Video lecture # 9
Name: Christian Coronel Tenesaca
Definition answers ‘what’, rather than ‘why’, questions. Also a concept is an idea of
something formed by mentally combining all its characteristics or particulars; a
construct. We need the concepts because are integral to every argument; they
address a basic question of research: “what are we talking about?”
Concepts get in the way of clear understanding when the same concept is employed
with a different meaning in different intellectual traditions, or when different fields
use different concepts to denote what is in fact the same thing.