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Nominalism vs Conceptualism - What's the difference?

nominalism | conceptualism |

In philosophy terms the difference between nominalism and conceptualism

is that nominalism is a doctrine that universals do not have an existence except as names for classes of concrete objects while conceptualism is a theory, intermediate between realism and nominalism, that the mind has the power of forming for itself general conceptions of individual or single objects.

nominalism

English

(wikipedia nominalism)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (philosophy) A doctrine that universals do not have an existence except as names for classes of concrete objects.

    • Antonyms

    * realism

    conceptualism

    English

    Noun

  • The art movement towards conceptual art.
  • (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.
    • (Stewart)

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