Conceptualism
Conceptualism
a term used to designate that form of speculative philosophy which does not deny the reality of objective existences, but still holds them to be certain only as results of subjective perception or cognition. It was substantially that of Abelard, Peter the Lombard, and Albert the Great. SEE NOMINALISM and SEE REALISM. It has recently been revived in a modified form by Kant, Lotze, and others.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Conceptualism
A solution of the problem of universals which seeks a compromise between extreme nominalism (generic concepts are signs which apply indifferently to a number of particulars) and extreme realism (generic concepts refer to subsistent universals). Conceptualism offers various interpretations of conceptual objectivity
the generic concept refers to a class of resembling particulars,
the object of a concept is a universal essence pervading the particulars, but having; no reality apart from them,
concepts refer to abstracta, that is to say, to ideal objects envisaged by the mind but having no metaphysical status.
— L.W.
See Scholasticism.