Käsitteiden

Käsitteiden is the genitive plural form of the Finnish noun käsite, meaning "concept" or "notion." It is used to express "of the concepts" or "the concepts’" and is often encountered in academic discussions. This article uses käsite and its plural forms to discuss what concepts are and how they function in reasoning and language.

A concept is an abstract mental representation that groups objects, properties, and relations under a common idea. Concepts enable classification, communication, and inference. They are analyzed in terms of intension (the properties that define the concept) and extension (the objects it covers). In cognitive science, concepts are mental representations stored in memory; in philosophy and linguistics, they serve as units of meaning and knowledge.

Formation and change: Concepts arise through abstraction from experience, language, and social practice. They evolve as new information becomes available and as communities revise their explanatory frameworks.

Applications: In semantics and ontology, concept analysis investigates definitions, reference, and how terms relate. In information science and artificial intelligence, concepts underpin ontologies, taxonomies, and knowledge graphs. In education, concept maps help learners organize knowledge and reveal relationships among concepts (käsitteet).

Finnish usage: Käsite and its plural forms are standard in academic and everyday Finnish for discussing ideas. The genitive form käsitteiden marks possession or association, as in "käsitteiden väliset suhteet" (relations among concepts). See also Käsite, Semantics, Ontology, Concept map, Taxonomy.