nominalism

From French nominalisme. By surface analysis, nominal +‎ -ism.

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nominalism (countable and uncountable, plural nominalisms)

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

   Antonym: realism

   • 2021, Meghan O'Gieblyn, chapter 11, in God, Human, Animal, Machine […] , →ISBN:

     Blumenberg's thesis, which has since been reiterated by a number of philosophers and historians, is that nominalism, as it became widespread in Protestant theology, led to the Enlightenment, disenchantment, and the scientific revolution.

• misnominal

Borrowed from French nominalisme. By surface analysis, nominal +‎ -ism.

nominalism n (uncountable)

1. nominalism

nominalism c

1. nominalism

• konceptualism
• realism

• nominalist
• nominalistisk

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