conceptualism
English edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
Translations edit
theory
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Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French conceptualisme. By surface analysis, conceptual + -ism.
Noun edit
conceptualism n (uncountable)
Declension edit
declension of conceptualism (singular only)
singular | ||
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n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
nominative/accusative | (un) conceptualism | conceptualismul |
genitive/dative | (unui) conceptualism | conceptualismului |
vocative | conceptualismule |