| 释义 |
conceptualist|kənˈsɛptjuːəlɪst|
[mod. f. as prec. + -ist: (perh. a. 17–18th c. F. conceptualiste).]
One who holds the doctrine of conceptualism (in sense 1 or 2): esp. in History of Philosophy, applied to those who held opinions intermediate between those of the Realists and the Nominalists.
(In med.L. called Conceptistæ: c 1475 Petrus Nigri Clipeus Thomistarum (1504) 56 a (Prantl) Una opinio est eorum qui dicunt quod universale est conceptus mentis, et isti nominantur conceptistæ.)
Also, applied by Mill to one who holds that Logic is exclusively concerned with concepts.
1785Reid Int. Powers v. vi. Wks. 406/1 That universality which the Realists held to be in things themselves, Nominalists in names alone, they [a third party] held to be..in our conceptions. On this account they were called Conceptualists. c1837Hamilton Lect. Metaph. (1859) II. xxxvi. 316 The older Conceptualists [e.g. Locke, etc.] assert that it is possible to conceive a triangle neither equilateral nor rectangular,—but both at once. 1846Mill Logic i. vi. §1 The opinion of the Conceptualists, that a proposition is the expression of a relation between two ideas. Ibid. i. vi. §3 note, Where a Conceptualist says that a name or a proposition expresses our Idea of a thing, I should generally say (instead of our Idea) our Knowledge, or Belief, concerning the thing itself. 1855Milman Lat. Chr. (1872) IV. 365 John of Salisbury, in his Polycraticus, is a manifest, if not avowed Conceptualist.
attrib.1843Mill Logic I. i. vi. 154 It precisely expresses the point of difference respecting the import of Propositions, between my view and what I have called the Conceptualist view of them. 1858J. Martineau Studies Chr. 173 The mediatorial theology of Christendom,—a theology which never could have sprung up if our present conceptualist and nominalist notions had always prevailed. 1884Athenæum 14 June 752/3 The conceptualist school which once ruled English logic under the influence of Hamilton and Mansel. 1951J. Holloway Lang. & Intell. ii. 16 Two theories of the nature of universals will be considered, the conceptualist belief that they are mental entities, and the in re form of realism which maintains that they inhere in objects and are so apprehended by the mind.
Hence conˌceptuaˈlistic a., pertaining to, or of the nature of, conceptualism; so conceptuaˈlistically adv.
1881in Ogilvie Imp. Dict. 1890W. James Princ. Psychol. I. xii. 472 Our doctrine..of the ‘fringe’ leads to a perfectly satisfactory decision of the nominalistic and conceptualistic controversy, so far as it touches psychology. 1935Mind XLIV. 116 C. I. Lewis's ‘conceptualistic pragmatism’..turns out to be sheer empiricism. 1961Y. Olsson Syntax Eng. Verb vii. 201 Zero-linking is the result of different criteria from those conceptualistically applied in distinguishing between ‘ingressive’ and ‘effective’. |