conceptualism

Meanings

Plural: conceptualisms

Noun

• the doctrine that the application of a general term to various objects indicates the existence of a mental entity that mediates the application
• The art movement towards conceptual art.
• 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.