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Definition of Nominalists
1. nominalist [n] - See also: nominalist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nominalists
Literary usage of Nominalists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Sects, Heresies, Ecclesiastical Parties, and Schools of by John Henry Blunt (1874)
"nominalists. A school of mediaeval theologians which arose in the latter half of
the eleventh ... The nominalists thus opposed the position of the Realists, ..."
2. The Table Talk and Omniana of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With Additional Table by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1888)
"The controversy of the nominalists and Realists was one of the greatest and most
important that ever occupied the human mind. They were both right, ..."
3. Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth and by Henry Hallam (1860)
"The later nominalists of the scholastic period, Buridan, Biel, ... Peter d'Ailly,
Gerson, and other principal men of their age were nominalists; ..."
4. Introduction to the Literature Of Europe in the Fifteenth,sixteenth and by Henry Hallam (1879)
"The later nominalists of the scholastic period, Buridan, Biel, ... Peter d'Ailly,
Gerson, and other principal men of their age were nominalists; ..."
5. Church History by Johann Heinrich Kurtz (1889)
"nominalists and Realists.—After nominalism {§ 9! ... and was called by later
nominalists ... nominalists ..."
6. The Works of Thomas Reid, D.D., Now Fully Collected, with Selections from by Thomas Reid, William Hamilton, Dugald Stewart (1863)
"Biel, and other of the later nominalists, had long struck me as remarkable ; but
I had no suspicion that an opinion which had again so completely fallen ..."
7. Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe by Alexander von Humboldt (1860)
"The nominalists, who ascribed to general ideas of objects only a subjective
existence in the human mind, finally remained the dominant party in the ..."
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