concept: conceptualization
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Definition
The ego engages the world perceptually and practically, giving rise to pre-linguistic cognitive orientations here termed notions. Through the process of conceptualization these notions may become articulated in language and thereby transformed into concepts, which are intersubjectively shareable in discourse.
The first stage of conceptualization involves articulating everyday pattern of things and persons, which we call the ostensive realm. But conceptualization enables the emergent process of metaphor whereby supra-ostensive concepts like myths, stories, mathematics, and morality are introduced.
| Philosophical arena | relation to conceptualization |
| --------------------- | ------------------------------------ |
| animal cognition | explained by notions |
| nonconceptual content | corresponds to notions |
| public meaning | arises with concepts |
| language emergence | occurs through conceptualization |