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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.

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... larger treatises and the details of the psychology and the metaphysics became known especially through Averroes, we find among the Jews also an interest in the finer points of the problem of knowledge. The motives of Plato's idealism and Aristotle's conceptualism (if this inexact description may be allowed for want of a more precise term) are discussed with fulness and detail by Levi ben Gerson. He realizes the difficulty involved in the problem. Knowledge must be of the real and the permanent. But the particular is not permanent, and the universal, ...

— A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy • Isaac Husik

Words linked to "Conceptualism" : conceptualistic, philosophical doctrine, philosophical theory