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Nominalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nominalism is a metaphysical view in philosophy according to which general or abstract terms and predicates exist, while universals or abstract objects, which are ...

CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Nominalism, Realism, Conceptualism
Nominalism, Realism, Conceptualism. These terms are used to designate the theories that have been proposed as solutions of one of the most important questions in ...

Nominalism - New World Encyclopedia
Nominalism is the philosophical view that abstract concepts, general terms, or universals have no independent existence but exist only as names. It also claims that ...

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A discussion on Christian Nominalism. A source of information for deeper understanding of religious subjects.

Nominalism in Metaphysics (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Nominalism comes in at least two varieties. In one of them it is the rejection of abstract objects; in the other it is the rejection of universals.

Nominalism | Define Nominalism at Dictionary.com
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 ...

nominalism (philosophy) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia
nominalism (philosophy), in philosophy, position taken in the dispute over universals—words that can be applied to individual things having something in common ...

Nominalism definition of Nominalism in the Free Online Encyclopedia.
nominalism, in philosophy, a theory of the relation between universals and particulars. Nominalism gained its name in the Middle Ages, when it was contrasted with ...

nominalism - definition of nominalism by the Free Online ...
nom·i·nal·ism (n m-n-l z m) n. Philosophy. The doctrine holding that abstract concepts, general terms, or universals have no independent existence but exist only ...

Nominalism - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster ...
Definition of NOMINALISM. 1: a theory that there are no universal essences in reality and that the mind can frame no single concept or image corresponding to any ...