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conceptualism
A modern term describing a position in scholastic philosophy with respect to the status of universals (general concepts such as chair-ness) that was intermediate between the extremes of nominalism and realism. To a conceptualist, universals indeed exist, but only as concepts common to all human minds and not as things in the world particular objects (such as chairs).
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