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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the doctrine that the application of a general term to various objects indicates the existence of a mental entity that mediates the application;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Conceptualism \Con*cep"tu*al*ism\, n. (Metaph.) A theory, intermediate between realism and nominalism, that the mind has the power of forming for itself general conceptions of individual or single objects. --Stewart. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

conceptualism n 1: the doctrine that the application of a general term to various objects indicates the existence of a mental entity that mediates the application