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nominalist::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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Examples of nominalist
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Later, he arrived at a position closer to that of the nominalist Durandus.
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Burgess distinguished two types of nominalist reconstructions.
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These men spent a year together at Cambridge discussing the whole nominalist-finitist project.
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By going back to Plato, he revived the nominalist-realist debate.
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He also rejected their nominalist tendencies.
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Popper himself is a realist as opposed to an idealist, but a methodological nominalist as opposed to an essentialist.
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He flirted with Nelson Goodman's nominalism for a while, but backed away when he failed to find a nominalist grounding of mathematics.
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Why I am not a nominalist.
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The fourteenth century saw in particular the rise to dominance of the nominalist or voluntarist theologies of men like William of Ockham.
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- A philosopher who has adopted the doctrine of nominalism
- (nominalistic) of or relating to nominalism
- (nominalism) (philosophy) the doctrine that the various objects labeled by the same term have nothing in common but their name
- 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. ...
- (nominalism) A doctrine that universals do not have an existence except as names for classes of concrete objects
- (nominalism) 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.
- (Nominalism) Idea that universals are merely names for things
- (nominalism) The view that general terms, such as "table," do not refer to essences, concepts, abstract ideas, or anything else; "table" makes sense only because all tables resemble each other. According to this view, such general terms do not have any independent existence.
- (Nominalism) 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.
