====== Concept ======

===== What is a concept? =====

A concept is

  * "//a cognitive **unit of meaning** — an abstract idea or a mental symbol sometimes defined as a "unit of knowledge," built from other units which act as a concept's characteristics. A concept is typically associated with a corresponding representation in a language such as a word.//"

Today, in computer and information science contexts, the term "concept" is often used in loosely defined and inconsistent ways.(([[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/bfo/BeyondConcepts.pdf|Smith, Barry. Beyond Concepts: Ontology as Reality Representation. Proceedings of the International Conference on Formal Ontology and Information Systems, p73-84, 2004.]]))