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Definition of Conceptualism
1. Noun. The doctrine that the application of a general term to various objects indicates the existence of a mental entity that mediates the application.
Definition of Conceptualism
1. n. A theory, intermediate between realism and nominalism, that the mind has the power of forming for itself general conceptions of individual or single objects.
Definition of Conceptualism
1. Noun. The art movement towards conceptual art. ¹
2. Noun. (philosophy) A theory, intermediate between realism and nominalism, that the mind has the power of forming for itself general conceptions of individual or single objects. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Conceptualism
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Conceptualism
Literary usage of Conceptualism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Elements of Psychology: A Text-book by David Jayne Hill (1888)
"Conceptualism. The Conceptualists agree with the Nominalists in holding that
individuals only ... Conceptualism is commonly accepted by modern philosophers. ..."
2. The Problem of Knowledge by Douglas Clyde Macintosh (1915)
"The former view may be called anti-conceptualism; ... A nti-Conceptualism The
one great contemporary exponent of anti-conceptualism is Bergson. ..."
3. The First Principles of Knowledge by John Rickaby (1888)
"(b) Refutation of nominalism. (c) Specimens of nominalists in England. 3.
Conceptualism. (a) How conceptualists improve upon nominalists, ..."
4. Vocabulary of Philosophy: Psychological, Ethical, Metaphysical, with by William Fleming, Henry Calderwood (1890)
"It may be called the envelope of conceptualism, while conceptualism is the letter or
... "If nominalism sets out from conceptualism, conceptualism should ..."
5. Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic by William Hamilton, John Veitch, Henry Longueville Mansel (1870)
"NOMINALISM AND Conceptualism. I ENTERED, in my last Lecture, on the discussion
of LEGT. that great cognitive power which I called the Elabora- xxxv> tive ..."
6. Elements of Psychology by Sydney Herbert Mellone, Margaret Drummond (1907)
"Nominalism and conceptualism.—This view of the concept or universal gave rise to
a controversy between the upholders of two opposed theories,—psychological ..."
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