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Concept: a concept is a term for an entity with certain properties. The properties of an object correspond to the features of the concept. These concept features are necessary in contrast to the properties of an individual object, which are always contingent.
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Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.

 
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Hans-Georg Gadamer on Concepts - Dictionary of Arguments

I 432
Conept/Gadamer: That the natural concept formation, which goes along with language does not always follow the order of essence, but very often carries out its word formation on the basis of accidentals and relations, is confirmed by every look into Platonic conceptual dihaireses or Aristotelian definitions. But the primacy of the logical order of essence, which is determined by the concepts of substance and accidental, makes the natural conceptualization of language appear only as an imperfection of our finite mind.
Knowledge/Definition/Gadamer: Only because we know the accidentals alone, one is of the opinion that we follow them in the concept formation. Even if this is correct, however, a peculiar advantage follows from this imperfection - and Thomas Aquinas is right to have recognized this - namely the freedom to form infinite concepts and the progressive penetration of what is meant.
>Knowledge
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Thinking/Explaining: By thinking the process of thinking as the process of explication in the word, a logical achievement of language becomes visible, which cannot be fully understood from the perspective of the relationship of a material order as it would be before the eyes of an infinite mind.
>Thinking, >Explanation.
Categorization/Logic: The subordination of the natural formation of concepts by language to the essential structure of logic, which Aristotle and, following him, Thomas Aquinas taught, thus only has a relative truth.
In the middle of the penetration of Christian theology by the Greek thought of logic rather something new arises: The center of language, in which the mediation of the incarnation event first brings itself to its full truth. >Incarnation/Gadamer, >Word/Gadamer.
Christology becomes the forerunner of a new anthropology, which mediates the spirit of the human in his finiteness with divine infinity in a new way. Here what we have called the hermeneutical experience will find its real reason.
>Hermeneutic consciousness/Gadamer.
I 433
Thinking/Abstraction/Gadamer: the logical scheme of induction and abstraction [is] very misleading in that there is no explicit reflection in the linguistic consciousness on what is common between different things, and the use of words in their general meaning does not understand what is named and designated by them as a case subsumed under the general. The generality of the genre and the classificatory formation of concepts are quite far removed from the linguistic consciousness.
>Categorization/Gadamer, >Induction, >Abstraction.

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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.

Gadamer I
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Wahrheit und Methode. Grundzüge einer philosophischen Hermeneutik 7. durchgesehene Auflage Tübingen 1960/2010

Gadamer II
H. G. Gadamer
The Relevance of the Beautiful, London 1986
German Edition:
Die Aktualität des Schönen: Kunst als Spiel, Symbol und Fest Stuttgart 1977


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