conceptualism
conceptualism · conceptualisms
The art movement towards conceptual artThe art movement towards conceptual art.
Meaning
2 senses(countable, uncountable)The art movement towards conceptual art.
(countable, uncountable)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.
More definitions
- 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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