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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). How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The Space of Art" brings us to the mid-twentieth century with essays discerning Eastern influences in the work of the Japanese-American sculptor, Isamu Noguchi; the French conceptualist, Ives Klein; and the American painters Ad Reinhardt and (less convincingly, to my mind) Jasper Johns. Brouwn's fastidious parsing of the distinctions between conventional mensuration, international irregularities, and the labile dimensions of his own body takes up--and sends up--the Conceptualist faith in disinterested systems, but this injection of subjectivity is ultimately less absorbing than its collateral effects. The exhibition featured objects by well-known black conceptualists, such as Adrian Piper, David Hammons, Charles Gaines, and Fred Wilson, as well as by younger ones, such as Edgar Arceneaux, Annette Lawrence, and Sanford Biggers. |
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