Definitions for nominalism

nominalism nom·i·nal·ism

Spelling: [nom-uh-nl-iz-uh m]
IPA: /ˈnɒm ə nlˌɪz əm/

Nominalism is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 377 anagrams from letters in nominalism (aiilmmnnos).

Definitions for nominalism

noun

  1. (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 assigned to them. Compare conceptualism, realism (def 5a).

Origin of nominalism

From the French word nominalisme, dating back to 1830-40. See nominal, -ism

Examples for nominalism

Ockham in particular falls very short of what I had expected; and his nominalism is strangely different from that of Berkeley.

It is the first protest of nominalism against the doctrine of an extreme Realism.

And these ideas, which constitute reality, are names, as nominalism showed.

Rosmini, in an elaborate criticism, complains that Stewart did not perceive the inevitable tendency of nominalism to materialism.

His plan was to make theology plain and simple by founding it on the philosophical principles of nominalism.

Yet what could nominalism do for theology, or for clerical schools?

But Anselm did not rest with combating the nominalism of Roscelin.

It is not worth while to follow out the errors which arose in the middle ages from nominalism.

There is more, however, in Hobbes, than the paradox of nominalism.

This extreme of nominalism for which predication is impossible is, however, compromised by two concessions.

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