The phrase "a root concept" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing fundamental ideas or principles that serve as the basis for further understanding or development in a particular field or subject.
Example: "In our discussion of philosophy, we must first establish a root concept that will guide our exploration of various theories."
Alternatives: "a fundamental idea" or "a core principle".
Every active SNOMED CT concept (except the SNOMED CT "Root concept") has at least one Is a relationship to a supertype ("Parent") concept.
A broader issue with adaptationism is that its root concept – "adaptation" – is even more problematic than "fitness".
This concept profile is thus in reality a vector containing all concepts associated with the root concept by direct co-occurrence, weighted by the symmetric uncertainly coefficient [ 12].
More precisely, a concept profile is a list of concepts with for every concept a weight to indicate its association to the root concept, based on concept co-occurrence statistics from the scientific literature database PubMed (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed).nih.gov/pubmed
The song and video's root concept of synthesia actually comes off as a clever way to bring the viewer as close as possible to experiencing the condition.
On frequent evildoer and dispositional accounts of evil character the concept of evil action is the root concept of evil, while the concept of evil character is a derivative concept.
Some theorists focus on evil character, or evil personhood, as the root concept of evil.
But just as many theorists, or more, believe that the concept of evil action is the root concept of evil.
Some theorists who believe that evil action is the root concept believe that only one or two component properties are essential for evil action, while others believe that evil action has a multitude of essential components.
Checks are seen by many as an anachronistic relic of the U.S. payment system, but a better way to think of them, once you realize that the paper is not the important part of the check, is as the root concept that underlies all bank transactions.
