Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by YeGoblynQueenne 1094 days ago
That is indeed the general idea. That's why they're called "concepts", they're meant to be things, or categories of things, that we perceive. But "concept" also has a technical sense, of the assumed representation in machine learning.

That is, in machine learning a concept is represented as a set of instances. Inside the human mind, who knows.