conceptualism

Examples

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• Aquinas left the Christian tradition a lasting patrimony, but few could scale the heights he achieved, and his achievement was dissipated in conceptualism and nominalism.

  Academic text (2005)

• The distinction between conceptualism and intellectualism is an issue for a philosophy of mind, which cannot be discussed here at any length, but I can draw on an account of the issue that Lonergan gave during a summer institute at Boston College in 1957.

  Academic text (2008)

• It suffered from two blights, one of them a conceptualism about truth, in particular this one: "error has no rights."

  Academic text (2002)

• One is either left with Platonism or theism (as a result of conceptualism).

  Blog text (3)

• Conceptualism, in this case, a rights conceptualism, arrives at judgments not through a process of self-transcendence into objectivity but through a neglect of the self and the operations of the subject that alone make human acts moral acts.

  Academic text (2002)

• Conceptualism, in this case, a rights conceptualism, arrives at judgments not through a process of self-transcendence into objectivity but through a neglect of the self and the operations of the subject that alone make human acts moral acts.

  Academic text (2002)

• Without this intrapsychic base for responsibility for human rights, Lonergan would have launched a diatribe similar to those he aired in other places against all forms of prescriptivism, objectivism, and conceptualism, and all for the same reason: they are too easily reified and, in that form, too easily imposed on diminished subjects.

  Academic text (2002)

• In philosophy, conceptualism argues that concepts in our minds define how we understand universals.

• According to conceptualism, general terms are mediated by mental concepts rather than being linked to tangible universals.

Antonyms

R

realism

• Specialized

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The view that general ideas exist even when no one thinks of them

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology