conceptualism
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English conceptual
English conceptualism
From conceptual + -ism.
Noun
editconceptualism (countable and uncountable, plural conceptualisms)
- The art movement towards conceptual art.
- (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; the doctrine that universals have an existence in the mind apart from any concrete embodiment.
- 1853, Victor Cousin, Lectures on the True, the Beautiful, and the Good:
- We have thus returned, then, to that conceptualism of the middle age, which, concentrating truth within the human intelligence, makes the nature of things a phantom of intelligence projecting itself everywhere out of itself […]
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editRomanian
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editBorrowed from French conceptualisme. By surface analysis, conceptual + -ism.
Noun
editconceptualism n (uncountable)
Declension
edit| singular only | indefinite | definite |
|---|---|---|
| nominative-accusative | conceptualism | conceptualismul |
| genitive-dative | conceptualism | conceptualismului |
| vocative | conceptualismule | |
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