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Full Idea
Philosophy is the discipline that involves creating concepts.
Gist of Idea
Philosophy is a concept-creating discipline
Source
G Deleuze / F Guattari (What is Philosophy? [1991], Intro)
Book Ref
Deleuze/Guattari: 'What is Philosophy?' [Verso 1994], p.4
A Reaction
One might very reasonably reply that Geography is a discipline which creates concepts. However, this emphasis is an interesting corrective to the school of analysis, which appears confined to existing, and even 'folk', concepts.