Associations to the word «Conceptualism»

Wiktionary

CONCEPTUALISM, noun. The art movement towards conceptual art.
CONCEPTUALISM, noun. (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.

Dictionary definition

CONCEPTUALISM, noun. The doctrine that the application of a general term to various objects indicates the existence of a mental entity that mediates the application.

Wise words

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
John Adams