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Conceptualism

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Conceptualism is a noun meaning The art movement towards conceptual art.

Meaning

The art movement towards conceptual art.

More Meanings

  1. (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.

Example Sentences

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[…]

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Related dictionary entries include conceptualist, postconceptualism, concretism, neoconceptualism, neoconcretism, neoconceptualist.

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