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Definition of: conceptualism
(kən·sep′ch
·əl·iz′əm) noun
The doctrine that general ideas, or universals, exist in the mind only, and that the mind is capable of forming abstract ideas independently of concrete existences: a theory devised as intermediate between the extremes of nominalism and realism.
—con·cep′tu·al·ist noun
—con·cep′tu·al·is′tic adjective
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