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{{Short description|Metaphysical theory}} {{for|the postmodern art movement|Conceptual art}} [[File:Abelard.jpg|thumb|[[Peter Abelard]], a French philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician, put forward the theory of conceptualism.<ref>{{cite book|last=Laos|first=Nicolas|publisher=Wipf and Stock Publishers|isbn=9781498201025|year=2015|title=The Metaphysics of World Order: A Synthesis of Philosophy, Theology, and Politics|page=37|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uAL1BgAAQBAJ&q=peter+abelard+conceptualism&pg=PA37}}</ref>]] In [[metaphysics]], '''conceptualism''' is a theory that explains universality of [[particular]]s as conceptualized frameworks situated within the thinking mind.<ref name="Conceptualism" /> Intermediate between [[nominalism]] and [[Philosophical realism|realism]], the conceptualist view approaches the metaphysical concept of [[Universal (metaphysics)|universals]] from a perspective that denies their presence in particulars outside the mind's perception of them.<ref name="universals" /> Conceptualism is [[anti-realist]] about [[abstract objects]], just like [[immanent realism]] is (their difference being that immanent realism accepts there are mind-independent facts about whether universals are instantiated).<ref>Neil A. Manson, Robert W. Barnard (eds.), ''The Bloomsbury Companion to Metaphysics'', Bloomsbury, 2014, p. 95.</ref>
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