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nominalism::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | philosophical doctrine, philosophical theory |
| Derivation | nominalistic |
Examples of nominalism
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This is for people who know only that nominalism has something to do with names.
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His position is a little bit closer to nominalism than that of Thomas Aquinas.
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Denying that classes and sets exist is the contemporary meaning of nominalism.
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There are various forms of nominalism ranging from extreme to almost-realist.
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The former position has been called philosophical realism, and the latter nominalism.
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It was immediately steeped in medieval nominalism and early Protestantism.
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Unrestricted Occam's Razor favors monism over dualism, and nominalism over platonism.
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To deny that universals exist is the scholastic variant of nominalism.
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The view that there really are no abstract objects is called nominalism.
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- (philosophy) the doctrine that the various objects labeled by the same term have nothing in common but their name
- (nominalistic) of or relating to nominalism
- Nominalism is a metaphysical view in philosophy according to which general or abstract terms and predicates exist, while universals or abstract objects, which are sometimes thought to correspond to these terms, do not exist. Thus, there are at least two main versions of nominalism. ...
- A doctrine that universals do not have an existence except as names for classes of concrete objects
- (NOMINALIST) In the middle ages, someone who maintained that there wer no universals above and beyond particular individual things and words (marks on paper) in particular languages. See realist. ...
- Strictly speaking, the theory of knowledge opposed to realism. The term is, however, still used occasionally to refer to the via moderna. See pp. 34-5.
- A theory that denies the existence of a separate universal entity that encompases the qualities of individual entities. For example, there is not a universal concept of trees or treeness, reality only includes individual trees.
- Critical and skeptical, this is the largest and most influential school of the period. Important members are, first, Occam's pupils Adam Wodham (+1358), Walter Chatton, and Robert Holcot (+1349), then come Gregory of Rimini (+1358), John of Mirecourt, Nicholas of Autrecourt, a medieval Hume, ...
- In logic, the doctrine that universal or class ideas (e. g., man) have no objective realities corresponding to them, but are merely names.
