Sentence examples for primitive concept from inspiring English sources
noun
A concept that cannot be defined in terms of other concepts.
But Professor Barabasi has put more flesh on the relatively primitive concept of the network effect.
Instead of dealing with the primitive concept of partial charges, numerical wavefunctions can be used to map the details of the charge distribution and hence to screen molecules for possible activity.
The corresponding relation is introduced as a primitive concept in Bolzano's epistemology.
The most primitive concept was that of contact, and its opposite, a cut separating two bodies.
We remark that we have not taken the notion of a "message" as a primitive concept.
Eriksson and Hájek (2007) argue that "degree of belief" should just be taken as a primitive concept in epistemology.
The central belief of Christian orthodoxy — the substitutionary atonement of Christ on the Cross — Spong, now retired, pronounced "a barbarian idea based on primitive concepts of God".
But Israel is an enslaved state, enslaved to itself: it is fettered by fossilized thought patterns; manacled by ancient, even primitive, concepts; burdened by the worst yoke of all -- the one it has imposed on its own neck.
Having thus defined the integers in terms of the primitive concepts "set" and "element of," Frege agreed with Cantor that there was no logical reason to stop, and he went on to define infinite sets in the same way Cantor had.
Sure, okay, because super advanced aliens still understand primitive concepts like "property" and whatnot.
And Fodor has convinced many that primitive concepts are in principle unlearnable (see, e.g., Pinker 2007).
