Knowra Concepts & principles Concepts & principles Concepts are mental categories or abstract ideas used to organize understanding; principles are foundational rules or propositions that guide reasoning, explanation, or action.
Concept : An abstract idea or mental category used to represent, classify, or explain something. Concepts are the basic units that organize a subject’s ideas.
Reasoning : The process of drawing conclusions from premises, evidence, or other information. Principles guide which inferences follow from stated assumptions.
Scientific method : A systematic approach to developing and testing explanations through observation and evidence. It relies on principles such as testability and reproducibility to evaluate claims.
Theory : An organized set of ideas that explains phenomena and supports predictions or interpretation. A theory combines concepts and principles into a broader explanatory structure.
Principle : A foundational proposition or rule that guides reasoning, explanation, or action. Principles turn general understanding into rules for judgment or practice.
Deductive reasoning : Inference in which a conclusion follows necessarily from premises if they are true. It applies general principles to derive conclusions about particular cases.
Design principle : A general guideline used to shape decisions in the creation of an artifact or system. Designers translate broad goals into constraints such as simplicity or consistency.
Hypothesis : A testable proposed explanation or prediction about a phenomenon. A hypothesis is a specific claim to examine, not a general guiding principle.
Definition : A statement that specifies the meaning or boundaries of a word, expression, or idea. Definitions establish what a concept or principle includes.
Inductive reasoning : Inference that generalizes from observed cases to conclusions that are probable, not certain. Repeated cases can support proposed concepts and principles without proving them.
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