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conceptualism

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

  1. The art movement towards conceptual art.
  2. 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.

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Examples

“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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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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