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nominalism

About 0.33 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A doctrine that universals do not have an existence except as names for classes of concrete objects.

Similar words

realism nomothetics noumenology nomenclaturism ontology nomology antimetaphysicalism naturalism sortal nomologist

Often followed by

and is of in was which that as to

Word family

nominalisms nominalist nominalistic nominalists

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