conceptualism
English
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English conceptual
English conceptualism
From conceptual + -ism.
Noun
[edit]conceptualism (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 […]
Derived terms
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theory
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[edit]Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French conceptualisme. By surface analysis, conceptual + -ism.
Noun
[edit]conceptualism n (uncountable)
Declension
[edit]| singular only | indefinite | definite |
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| nominative-accusative | conceptualism | conceptualismul |
| genitive-dative | conceptualism | conceptualismului |
| vocative | conceptualismule | |
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- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂el- (grow)
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *ḱe
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *kap- (seize)
- English terms suffixed with -ism
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *ḱóm
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