Conceptualism

In metaphysics, conceptualism is a theory that explains universality of particulars as conceptualized frameworks situated within the thinking mind.^[2] Intermediate between nominalism and realism, the conceptualist view approaches the metaphysical concept of universals from a perspective that denies their presence in particulars outside the mind's perception of them.^[3] Conceptualism is anti-realist about abstract objects, just like immanent realism is (their difference being that immanent realism accepts there are mind-independent facts about whether universals are instantiated).^[4]

^ Laos, Nicolas (2015). The Metaphysics of World Order: A Synthesis of Philosophy, Theology, and Politics. Wipf and Stock Publishers. p. 37. ISBN 9781498201025.
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^ Neil A. Manson, Robert W. Barnard (eds.), The Bloomsbury Companion to Metaphysics, Bloomsbury, 2014, p. 95.

[1] Laos, Nicolas (2015). The Metaphysics of World Order: A Synthesis of Philosophy, Theology, and Politics. Wipf and Stock Publishers. p. 37. ISBN 9781498201025.

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[4] Neil A. Manson, Robert W. Barnard (eds.), The Bloomsbury Companion to Metaphysics, Bloomsbury, 2014, p. 95.

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