Conceptualism

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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