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con•cep•tu•al•ism
Pronunciation: (kun-sep'chOO-u-liz"um), [key]—
n. Philos.
any of several doctrines existing as a compromise between realism and nominalism and regarding universals as concepts. Cf.
nominalism, realism (def. 5).
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