noun | con·cep·tion | \kən-ˈsep-shən\
1.a : the process of becoming pregnant involving fertilization or implantation or both
1.b : beginning
2.a : the capacity, function, or process of forming or understanding ideas or abstractions or their symbols
2.b : a general idea
2.c : a complex product of abstract or reflective thinking
2.d : the sum of a person’s ideas and beliefs concerning something
3. : the originating of something in the mind
Definition of “conception” | Merriam-Webster Online
the action of conceiving a child or of a child being conceived.
• the forming or devising of a plan or idea.
the way in which something is perceived or regarded.
• a general notion; an abstract idea.
• a plan or intention.
• understanding; ability to imagine.
Definition of “conception” | Google Search
1. The act of conceiving.
2. The state of being conceived; the beginning.
3. The fertilization of an ovum by a sperm to form a zygote.
4. The start of pregnancy.
5. The formation of a conceptus or an implanted embryo.
6. The power or faculty of apprehending of forming an idea in the mind; the power of recalling a past sensation or perception; the ability to form mental abstractions.
7. An image, idea, or notion formed in the mind; a concept, plan or design.
Definition of “conception” | Wikitionary
Conception is, as the name implies, taking together into one idea the element of meaning common to a number of objects and things. It is … the be-grasping into one thought of the idea present in a plurality of objects.
Psychology | John Dewey
Conception is the mind’s process of forming an idea made up of the common attributes of a class of objects. Concept’s advance in development over imagination, memory and sense-perception is in shifting the mind’s emphasis from the particular aspects of objects to the general aspects. Sense-perception and imagination, the idea-forming stages of knowing below conception, give the mind particular ideas; conception, also an idea-forming stage of knowing, advances to the general ideas.
Introduction to Psychology | George Wallace Neet
In Particular Conceptions, the thing conceived is some particular object … while in General Conceptions the object is something general. But … how can there be General objects?
The answer is, that General objects do not really exist … Thus, though the Conception itself be real, the object thereof is not.
Principles of Psychology | George Ramsay