nominalism
[nom-uh-nl-iz-uh m]
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noun
(in medieval philosophy) the doctrine that general or abstract words do not stand for objectively existing entities and that universals are no more than names assigned to them.Compare conceptualism, realism(def 5a).
Origin of nominalism
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There is more, however, in Hobbes, than the paradox of nominalism.
Yet what could nominalism do for theology, or for clerical schools?
Science and Medieval ThoughtSir Thomas Clifford Allbutt
But Anselm did not rest with combating the Nominalism of Roscelin.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume VJohn Lord
And these ideas, which constitute reality, are names, as Nominalism showed.
Tragic Sense Of LifeMiguel de Unamuno
It is the first protest of Nominalism against the doctrine of an extreme Realism.
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