Meanings
nounnonconceptualism (uncountable)
- uncountablehuman sciencesA negation of conceptualism
Part of the appeal of nonconceptualism as a view in its own right is that it seems to do better justice than conceptualism to what we might call the primitive character of perception relative to thought and judgment.
2007 October 17, Hannah Ginsborg, “Was Kant a nonconceptualist?”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 137, number 1, →DOI
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Germanic*ne
- Proto-Indo-European*ís?
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁óynos
- Proto-Germanic*ainaz
- Proto-Germanic*nainaz
- Proto-West Germanic*nain
- Old Englishnān
- Middle Englishnon
- Old Englishnān
- Old Englishnān-
- Middle Englishnon-
- Englishnon-
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱe?
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱóm
- Proto-Italic*kom
- Proto-Italic*kom-
- Latincon-
- Proto-Indo-European*kap-
- Proto-Indo-European*kapyéti
- Proto-Italic*kapjō
- Latincapiō
- Ancient Greekσῠλλᾰμβᾰ́νω (sŭllămbắnō)
- Latinconcipiō
- Latinconceptus
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
- Medieval Latinconceptuālis
- Englishconceptual
- Englishconceptualism
- Englishnonconceptualism
From non- + conceptualism.
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nonconceptualism. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonconceptualism
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