The term "concept" in modern linguistics

This article gives the meaning of the term concept and is devoted to research the term of concept. There are a lot of points of view about what the concept is. Some scholars consider that the concept is a mental unit which replace us indefinite lots of objects of one sort. The other scholars suppose that the concept and the conception are not equal. Stepanov says that the concept and the conception are the terms of different sciences. The conception is maintain the term of logic and philosophy and the concept is the term of mathematics logic and culturology. There is no dictionary entry in linguistic encyclopedic dictionary of the term concept. It is only a synonym of the term conception. This article summarize all points of view about the term concept and give its definition.