See also:

• CONCEPCION
• CONCEPCION, or VILLA CONCEPCION

CONCEPCION, or See also:

• VILLA

VILLA CONCEPCION  , the See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal See also:

• TOWN

town and a See also:

• RIVER

river See also:

• PORT

port of See also:

• NORTHERN

northern See also:

• PARAGUAY

Paraguay, on the Paraguay river, 138 m . (234 M. by river) N. of See also:

• ASUNCION (NUESTRA SENORA DE LA ASUNCION)

Asuncion, and about 345 ft. above See also:

• SEA (in O. Eng. sae, a common Teutonic word; cf. Ger. See, Dutch Zee, &c.; the ultimate source is uncertain)
• SEA, COMMAND OF THE

sea-level . Pop . (1895, estimate) 1o,000, largely See also:

• INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN

Indians and mestizos . It is an important commercial centre, and a port of See also:

• CALL (from Anglo-Saxon ceallian, a common Teutonic word, cf. Dutch kallen, to talk or chatter)

call for the river steamers trading with the Brazilian town of See also:

• CORUMBA

Corumba, Matto Grosso . It is the principal point for the exportation of Paraguay See also:

• TEA (Chinese cha, Amoy dialect t€)

tea, or " yerba See also:

• MATE (a corruption of make, from O. Eng. gemaca, a " comrade ")
• MATE, or PARAGUAY TEA

mate " (Ilex paraguayensis) . The town has a See also:

• STREET
• STREET, GEORGE EDMUND (1824-1881)

street railway and See also:

• TELEPHONE (Gr. rjXs, far, and dxwvr7, voice)

telephone service, a See also:

• NATIONAL

national See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

college, a public school, a See also:

• MARKET (Lat. mercatus, trade or place of trade)

market, and some important commercial establishments . The neighbouring See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country is sparsely settled and produces little except See also:

• FOREST

forest products . Across the river, in the Paraguayan See also:

• CHACO

Chaco, is an See also:

• ENGLISH

English missionary station, whose territory extends inland among the Indians for many See also:

• MILES, NELSON APPLETON (1839— )

miles . CONCEPT' . (See also:

• LAT

Lat. conceptus, a thought, from concipere, to take together, combine in thought; Ger . Begriff), in See also:

• PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

philosophy, a See also:

• TERM

term applied to a See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general See also:

• IDEA (Gr. Ibia, connected with i&eiv, to see; cf. Lat. species from specere, to look at)

idea derived from and considered apart from the particulars observed by the senses .

The See also:

• MENTAL

mental See also:

• PROCESS

process by which this idea is obtained is called See also:

• ABSTRACTION (Lat. abs and trahere)

abstraction (q.v.) . By the comparison, for instance, of a number of boats, the mind abstracts a certain See also:

• COMMON

common quality or qualities in virtue of which the mind affirms the general idea of " See also:

• BOAT (0. Eng. bdt; the true etymological connexion with Dutch and Ger. boot, Fr. bateau, Ital. battello presents great difficulties; Celtic forms are from O. Eng.)

boat." Thus the See also:

• CONNOTATION

connotation of the term " boat," being the sum of those qualities in respect of which all boats are regarded as alike, whatever their individual peculiarities may be, is described as a " concept." The psychic process by which a concept is affirmed is called " Conception," a term which is often loosely used in a See also:

• CONCRETE
• CONCRETE (Lat. concretes, participle of concrescere, to grow together)

concrete sense for " Concept " itself . It is also used even more loosely as synonymous in the widest sense with " idea," " notion." Strictly, however, it is contrasted with " See also:

• PERCEPTION (from Lat. percipere, to perceive)

perception," and implies the mental reconstruction and See also:

• COMBINATION (Lat. combinare, to combine)

combination of sense-given data . Thus when one carries one's thoughts back to a See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of events, one constructs a psychic whole made up of parts which take definite shape and See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character by their mutual inter-relations . This process is called conceptual See also:

• SYNTHESIS (Gr. a6vOeacs, from avvrcBivac, to put together)

synthesis, the possibility of which is a sine qua non for the See also:

• EXCHANGE

exchange of See also:

• INFORMATION (from Lat. informare, to give shape or form to, to represent, describe)

information by speech and See also:

• WRITING
• WRITING (the verbal noun of " to write," O. Eng. writan, to inscribe)

writing . It should be noticed that this (very common) psychological See also:

• INTERPRETATION (from Lat. interpretari, to expound, explain, inter pres, an agent, go-between, interpreter; inter, between, and the root pret-, possibly connected with that seen either in Greek 4 p4'ew, to speak, or irpa-rrecv, to do)

interpretation of " conception " differs from the metaphysical or general philosophical See also:

• DEFINITION (Lat. definitio, from de-finire, to set limits to, describe)

definition given above, in so far as it includes mental presentations in which the universal is not specifically distinguished from the particulars . Some psychologists prefer to restrict the term to the narrower use which excludes all mental states in which particulars are cognized, even though the universal be See also:

• PRESENT

present also . In See also:

• BIOLOGY (Gr. Qios, life)

biology conception is the coalescence of the male and See also:

• FEMALE

female generative elements, producing pregnancy . ' The word " conceit " in its various senses (" idea," " See also:

• PLAN
• PLAN (from Lat. planes, flat)

plan," " See also:

• FANCY (a shortened form, dating from the 15th century, of " fantasy," which is derived through the O. Fr. fantasie, modern fantaisie. from the Latinized form of the Gr. cbavraoia, Oavrai'ecv, Oat Pais, to show)

fancy," " See also:

• IMAGINATION

imagination," and, by See also:

• MODERN

modern See also:

• EXTENSION (Lat. ex, out ; tendere, to stretch)

extension, an overweening sense of one's own value) is likewise derived ultimately from the Latin concipere . It appears to have been formed directly from the English derivative " conceive " on the See also:

• ANALOGY (Gr. avaXo-yLa, proportion)

analogy of " deceit " from " deceive." According to the New English See also:

• DICTIONARY

Dictionary there is no intermediate See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form in Old See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French .