When1: 1100
When2: 1150
Who: Conceptualism
What: philosophic school
Where: France/England
Detail: School included Abelard, Gilbert de la Porree, and John of Salisbury. Categories and rules are mental concepts shared by people that respond to similar world with similar minds {Conceptualism}. Universals are real insofar as they express similarities or essential object characteristics to which people respond to make concepts or dispositions.
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