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Full Idea
Conceptualism holds that there are universals but they are mind-made.
Gist of Idea
Conceptualism holds that there are universals but they are mind-made
Source
Willard Quine (On What There Is [1948], p.14)
Book Ref
Quine,Willard: 'From a Logical Point of View' [Harper and Row 1963], p.14
| 19226 | We now know that mathematics only studies hypotheses, not facts [Peirce] |
| 8642 | Abstraction from things produces concepts, and numbers are in the concepts [Frege] |
| 1614 | Conceptualism holds that there are universals but they are mind-made [Quine] |
| 18140 | The best version of conceptualism is predicativism [Bostock] |
| 18138 | Conceptualism fails to grasp mathematical properties, infinity, and objective truth values [Bostock] |
| 18063 | Conceptualists say we know mathematics a priori by possessing mathematical concepts [Kitcher] |
| 18064 | If meaning makes mathematics true, you still need to say what the meanings refer to [Kitcher] |
| 8731 | Conceptualist are just realists or idealist or nominalists, depending on their view of concepts [Shapiro] |