Conceptualism

[kәn'septʃuәlizm]

Definition

(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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Definition

(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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