Concepts, terms, and words
A concept exists only privately, in an individual mind; a term is in the public domain. A term expresses objectively what is known subjectively in a concept; a concept is a person’s subjective knowledge of the meaning of a term.
A word (or group of words forming a phrase that is less than a complete sentence) is the linguistic expression of a term. The difference between a term and a word is the difference between what is common to all languages and what is different in different languages; for the same term, the same unit of meaning, is expressed in different words by different languages. Languages are man- made, conventional, and changeable. Terms are not. That is why it is possible to
translate between different languages: because the same stable term, or unit of meaning, anchors many different words in many different languages. E.g. “love,” “caritas,” “agape,” “lieb,” “amor,” and “amour” are the same term in six different words.
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