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Definition of Nominalism
1. Noun. (philosophy) the doctrine that the various objects labeled by the same term have nothing in common but their name.
Generic synonyms: Philosophical Doctrine, Philosophical Theory
Derivative terms: Nominalistic
Definition of Nominalism
1. n. The principles or philosophy of the Nominalists.
Definition of Nominalism
1. Noun. (philosophy) A doctrine that universals do not have an existence except as names for classes of concrete objects. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nominalism
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nominalism
Literary usage of Nominalism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Philosophy by Frank Thilly (1914)
"nominalism rality than those which have been prescribed : there is nothing ...
It is now nominalism declared that the undertaking is not only presump- ..."
2. The Reformation by George Park Fisher (1906)
"Although both Wickliffe and Huss were Realists, it was nominalism that brought
... nominalism necessarily tended to encourage, also, an empirical method ..."
3. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1864)
"Thus nominalism claimed that there is no such thing as an abstract animal or as
a tree in ... This view gave rise both to nominalism and conceptual- ism. ..."
4. The Field of Philosophy: An Outline of Lectures on Introduction to Philosophy by Joseph Alexander Leighton (1918)
"The question at issue between realism and nominalism seems to us very much like
hair splitting, but such feeling is due to our ignorance of the real nature ..."
5. The Place of Christ in Modern Theology by Andrew Martin Fairbairn (1895)
"The philosophical question was the famous one as to universals, or nominalism
and Realism. The question was raised by a passage in Boethius' translation of ..."
6. A History of Philosophy by Frank Thilly (1914)
"Roscelin * taught a pronounced nominalism and made it the ... Although nominalism
as such was not included in the condemnation, it lost prestige and did not ..."
7. Problems of Science by Federigo Enriques (1914)
"REALISM AND nominalism. In opposition to the developments to which I have ...
And to the nominalism recently maintained by Poincare, which declares that ..."
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