Friday, April 27, 2012

What is a concept? Figure & ground



ground - is a homogenous group of related percepts, experiences or thoughts



figure - a single often separate percept or experience is identified and whose nature is linked in someway to the grouped percepts (ground)


concept - (as figure & ground) - is a unified mental construction of figure and ground, a superimposition of mental images occurs in which a single percept or experience (figure) becomes the object of attention against a relatively homogenous background of related percepts and experiences (ground)


definitions derived from a number of sources  Merriam-Webster, Visual Thesaurus and one other currently unknown.

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