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His responses aren’t nonsensical; they’re nominalist, which is to say that David, like certain Anglo-American philosophers, can’t or won’t accept the reality of abstract numbers.

From New York Times • May 26, 2020

As must the band Merchandise, whose name – one might think – is a nominalist satire of commodification by the music industry.

From The Guardian • Jun. 12, 2013

Neither the nominalist nor the mathematical usages are particularly common, and we cannot show any direct influence from either of them on seventeenth-century usages.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

And by a curious irony of fate, it is the nominalist who is, this time, the champion of orthodoxy, and the realist that of heresy.

From Critiques and Addresses by Huxley, Thomas Henry

For the monist all plurality in being is merely apparent, not real: there can be no question of a real distinction between individual and individual.145 Similarly, the nominalist and the conceptualist evade the problem.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter