Nominalism

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Philosophy The doctrine holding that abstract concepts, general terms, or universals have no independent existence but exist only as names.
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  • n. A doctrine that universals do not have an existence except as names for classes of concrete objects.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The principles or philosophy of the Nominalists.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The doctrine that nothing is general but names; more specifically, the doctrine that common nouns, as man, horse, represent in their generality nothing in the real things, but are mere conveniences for speaking of many things at once, or at most necessities of human thought; individualism. ,
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  • n. (philosophy) the doctrine that the various objects labeled by the same term have nothing in common but their name
    • Antonym
    realism   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    philosophical doctrine    philosophical theory   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    realis   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    physicalism    irrationalism    objectivism    betweennon-fiction    mimesis   
     
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