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conceptualism, in philosophy, position taken on the problem of universals universals, in philosophy, term applied to general or abstract objects such as concepts, qualities, relations, and numbers, as opposed to particular objects. The exact nature of a universal deeply concerned thinkers in the Middle Ages. ..... Click the link for more information. , initially by Peter Abelard Heloise, d. c.1164, the learned niece of Fulbert, canon of Notre Dame, who had hired Abelard as her tutor. After Heloise bore a son, a secret marriage was held to appease her uncle. ..... Click the link for more information. in the 12th cent. Like nominalism it denied that universals exist independently of the mind, but it held that universals have an existence in the mind as concept. These concepts are not arbitrary inventions but are reflections of similarities among particular things themselves, e.g., the concept male reflects a similarity between Paul and John. This similarity shows that universals are also patterns in God's mind according to which he creates particular things. Slightly modified, this view becomes the position of moderate realism realism, in philosophy. 1 In medieval philosophy realism represented a position taken on the problem of universals . There were two schools of realism. ..... Click the link for more information. , the classical medieval solution to the controversy. For a modern statement of conceptualism, see C. I. Lewis, Analysis of Knowledge and Valuation (1946, repr. 1962). |
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Most mesmerizing of all, though, are the small keys that spell out and recapitulate the schemas of the drawings, deftly rejuvenating the coincidence of linguistic proposition and physical execution so prized by Conceptualism. Hence the swing to theory (Deconstruction's 'questioning' leading to the silliest notions), history (as if a few quotes could reimmerse us in its flow), art (Minimalism, Conceptualism, Arte Povera, or whatever, as evasions of relevance), spurious scenarios or process (whether using rational methods to irrational ends, or methodologies and research findings played out passively to novel ends). This double-edged ubiquity of psychedelic art makes it even more of a challenge to identify works and artists that can, after the fact, go toe-to-toe with those canonized through Pop, Minimalism, and Conceptualism. |
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