conceptualism

This article explains a term from the history of philosophy, for the art movement of the 20th century see conceptual art .

The conceptualism ( lat. Conceptus : general term) is an epistemological position within the medieval philosophy. Prepared by Abelard and represented by William von Ockham and his school, she sought a middle ground in the universality dispute . The nominalism admits conceptualism that universals name for Common are; but he follows the (Platonic) conceptual realism when he emphasizes that these names are not arbitrary. For Ockham, general terms are natural signs, just as crying is a sign of grief. It is true that they are not actualized in the thing for which they stand, but they are similar in certain respects.

See also

• Universals problem
• abstraction
• Nonconceptualism

Web links

• Rudolf Eisler : Keyword Conceptualism , in: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms 1904

literature

• Siegfried Blaschke / Peter Schroeder / Reiner Wimmer, keyword “Conceptualism”, in: Jürgen Mittelstraß (ed.), Encyclopedia Philosophy and Philosophy of Science , Stuttgart 1995, Vol. 2, p. 466 f.
• Wolfgang Hübener , keyword “Conceptualism”, in: HWPh: Historical Dictionary of Philosophy , ed. v. Joachim Ritter, Basel 1992, Vol. 4, pp. 1086-1090
• Wolfgang Stegmüller , The problem of universals once and now, in: ders., Faith, Knowledge and Recognition, Darmstadt 1965, pp. 48–118