1) Philosophical doctrine 2) Philosophical theory
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Conceptualism is a philosophical theory that explains universality of particulars as conceptualized frameworks situated within the thinking mind. Intermediate between Nominalism and Realism, the conceptualist view approaches the metaphysical concept of universals from a perspective that denies their presence in particulars outside of the mind`s p....
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theory that universal truths exist as mental concepts
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• (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.
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(from the article `metaphysics`) ...thought that Forms were really there, although only as embodied in particular instances. More skeptical philosophers denied the reality of ... ...to the tenets of other philosophical positions. As opposed to Nominalism, which denies that essences (or the specific and generic natures of ... ...domin...
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A modern term describing a position in scholastic philosophy with respect to the status of universals (general concepts such as chair-ness) that was intermediate between the extremes of nominalism and realism. To a conceptualist, universals indeed exist, but only as concepts common to all human mind...
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Con·cep'tu·al·ism noun (Metaph.) A theory, intermediate between realism and nominalism, that the mind has the power of forming for itself general conceptions of individual or single objects.
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In metaphysics, conceptualism is a doctrine in some sense intermediate between realism and nominalism. Conceptualism assigns to universals an existence which may be called logical or psychological, that is, independent of single objects, but dependent upon the mind of the thinking subject, in which they are as notions or conceptions.
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a doctrine in philosophy intermediate between nominalism and realism, that universals exist only within the mind and have no external or substantial reality.
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n] - the doctrine that the application of a general term to various objects indicates the existence of a mental entity that mediates the application
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noun the doctrine that the application of a general term to various objects indicates the existence of a mental entity that mediates the application
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A solution of the problem of universals which seeks a compromise between extreme nominalism (generic concepts are signs which apply indifferently to a number of particulars) and extreme realism (generic concepts refer to subsistent universals). Conceptualism offers various interpretations of conceptual objectivity: the generic concept refers to a.....
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any of several doctrines existing as a compromise between realism and nominalism and regarding universals as concepts. Cf. nominalism, realism (def. 5).
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