The phrase "a substantive concept" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing ideas or theories that have significant meaning or importance in a particular context.
Example: "In our discussion of ethics, we must first establish a substantive concept of justice to guide our analysis."
Alternatives: "a meaningful idea" or "a significant notion".
Correctly viewed, invention is a substantive concept.
This is misleading, since impartiality in its broadest sense is best understood as a formal notion, while moral impartiality in particular is a substantive concept — and one concerning which there is considerable dispute.
In Singapore, natural justice is generally regarded as a procedural rather than a substantive concept.
In that case, it turns out that it is sublimity that is a substantive aesthetic concept, not beauty.
Complexities thus arose in deciding whether the studies were about the same substantive concept of quality of life or were tapping into a separate but overlapping concept.
Attention to these fine points of presentation can help reviewers work less to see the gist of your argument and even enhance their comprehension of your more difficult substantive concepts.
Meta-ethnography is an interpretive rather than an aggregative approach, which involves the translation of individual qualitative studies into each other, through the re-interpretation and transformation of their theoretical and substantive concepts [ 13, 16, 19].
Initial stages included close reading of interview transcripts, field notes, and memoranda by the first author to generate substantive concepts that made sense of the data for how respondents described and explained their MSK troubles, broadly clustered into the domains MSK perceptions and Glossary of MSK terms.
The assumption is that the intuitions one is disposed to have in virtue of possessing the concept of law will be fertile enough to constitute a particular substantive conception of what the law is and how it functions.
These examples may point to a general problem with the attempt to derive impartiality from universalizability: whereas the latter, at least on a Kantian interpretation, is a formal property of moral judgments, moral impartiality, as we have seen, is a substantive rather than a formal concept.
To construct a substantive theory of postpartum fatigue.
