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This study claims that concepts circulate between dictionaries and specific social contexts. By analyzing this circulation, it aims to show the routine of meaning between objectivity and subjectivity. Dictionaries limit concepts historically. On the other hand, the concept also has possible meanings that go beyond the limits of the dictionary. In short, the main question of the article is where the meaning of the concept is, where it comes from and where it goes. The study consists of a single chapter with two subtitles. The effect of dictionaries fortifying the meaning and making it somehow transhistorical has been expressed as "objective imposition". The erosion of this objectivity by social events with their own specific conditions is called "subjective reduction". The concept of “intellectual” is chosen as an example to illustrate the tension that objective imposition and subjective reduction impose on the meaning. The question of how the objective imposition is realized necessitated a genealogical analysis of the expression "Intellectual", that is, going to the dictionary. Because dictionaries are thought to fix the meaning by scraping it into the text. Then, special reference points and contemporary meanings of "intellectual" in French, Arabic and Turkish were tried to be determined. It is thought that this determination indicates that the meaning takes on a cyclical character in the endless expansion of private social ties. Thus, in this article, ancestry analysis justifies the claims about the general characteristics of dictionaries, while the determination of contemporary meaning and new reference points justifies the claim that the concepts are subject to subjective reductions.

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