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n. - The doctrine that the application of a general term to various objects indicates the existence of a mental entity that mediates the application.

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  • Such a technocratic approach indicates to me doctrinalism (maybe even formalism) run amok; there's a crying need for some "conceptualism".
  • I prefer the label conceptualism to doctrinalism.
  • "conceptualism," and ready, like Protagoras, to show us how man is the measure of all things and how the individual is the measure of man.
  • Two conceptions of conceptualism and nonconceptualism.
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