Definitions for "Conceptualism"
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 which holds that we have universal ideas in the mind, but there is no objective ground or foundation in extra-mental objects which would entitle the mind to group a number of individuals under one (universal) idea.
the doctrine that the application of a general term to various objects indicates the existence of a mental entity that mediates the application