conceptualist

Variant of conceptualism

conceptualism definition

con·cep·tu·al·ism (-iz′əm)

noun

the doctrine, intermediate between nominalism and realism, that universals exist explicitly in the mind as concepts, and implicitly in things as shared qualities

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