CONCEPTUALLY

conceptual (kənˈsɛptjʊəl)

—*adj*
1.	relating to or concerned with concepts; abstract
2.	concerned with the definitions or relations of the concepts of some field of enquiry rather than with the facts

con'ceptually

—*adv*

conceptual (kənˈsɛptjʊəl)

—*adj*
1.	relating to or concerned with concepts; abstract
2.	concerned with the definitions or relations of the concepts of some field of enquiry rather than with the facts

con'ceptually

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

conceptually

1890, from conceptual + -ly (2). First attested in William James.

conceptual

1834, "pertaining to mental conception," apparently coined by Coleridge (there is an isolated use from 1662), from M.L. conceptualis, from conceptus "a conceiving," pp. of concipere (see conceive).

American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

conceptual con·cep·tu·al (kən-sěp'ch&oomacr;-əl)
adj.
Relating to concepts or the the formation of concepts.

Example sentences

Delusional content can have sensible content, even parts that appear quite

advanced conceptually.

Conceptually, this idea is still generally accepted in the stratigraphy

community.

The method is conceptually simple, though the technical details are rather

abstruse.

Each has made visually glorious, conceptually seismic pictures.

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"The child receives data through the sense organs; the child also has some inborn processing capacities—otherwise it would not be able to learn—but in addition, some "information" or "programs" are built-in at birth (for example, the child does not have to learn how to suck, for this is an innate reflex); there is a working memory, in which the child keeps those items of knowledge that are being used at a particular moment; and there is a permanent memory, which is, in Locke's terms, largely a "blank tablet" at birth, but which has a storage capacity that makes a hard disk pale into insignificance. The child gradually builds up a symbolic representation of the world around it, so there must be some inner "language" or medium of representation; even a newborn baby is starting to see and taste and smell and hear and touch, and to remember the more striking of its experiences, so the internal medium by which it represents and stores these impressions cannot be the native language (of which it is still ignorant. Jerry Fodor [in The Language of Thought] has discussed this inbuilt "language of thought," which is similar conceptually to the "machine language" that is built into the personal computer and about which most users remain completely ignorant)."

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