Knowledge Discovery: Concepts, Notions, and the Concept Dynamics Framework

AMA: What’s the difference between “Notions” and “Concepts”?

Three months ago, I made the above diagram for a Linkedin post about the following question:

What’s your perspective about the links between “notions” and “concepts”?

It was an interesting AMA(Ask Me Anything) because I didn’t pay attention to the difference between “notions” and “concepts”. The discussion inspired me to do a distinction between these two words in my daily life.

Later, I use the pairs of words “Concepts — Notions” for Knowledge Discovery Canvas. On Jan 5, 2022, I published an article titled The Notion of Thematic Spaces and introduced the Thematic Space Canvas. On March 11, 2022, I used “Knowledge Discovery Canvas” to rename the original Thematic Space Canvas because I decided to use “Thematic Space Canvas” to name a meta-canvas. You can find more details here.

The above canvas has two nested squares which divide the thematic space into two sub-spaces: Inner Space and Outer Space. We can adopt the metaphor of the City to…