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conceptualism en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- substratebor.? Proto-Indo-European *kap- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti Proto-Italic *kapjō Archaic Latin kapiō Latin capiō ▲ Ancient Greek σῠλλᾰμβᾰ́νω (sŭllămbắnō)calq. Latin concipiō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin conceptus Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Medieval Latin conceptuālisbor. English conceptual Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English conceptualism From conceptual + -ism.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The art movement towards conceptual art.
2. (countable, uncountable) 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.
   • 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[…] 1853, Victor Cousin, Lectures on the True, the Beautiful, and the Good:

Forms

Deriveds

anticonceptualism · postconceptualism · nonconceptualism · photoconceptualism · neoconceptualism

Translations (10)

fi konseptualismi (art movement) · pt conceptualismo (theory) · fr conceptualisme (theory) · fi konseptualismi (theory) · cmn 概念論 /概念论 (theory) · ca conceptualisme (theory) · fi käsitenominalismi (theory) · es conceptualismo (theory) · pt concetualismo (theory) · el εννοιοκρατία (theory)