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Nominalism - Wikipedia
In metaphysics, nominalism is the view that universals and abstract objects do not actually exist other than being merely names or labels. [1][2] There are two main versions of nominalism.
Nominalism in Metaphysics - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Nominalism is an exclusionary thesis in ontology. It asserts that there are no entities of certain sorts. Precisely which entities it excludes depends on the relevant variety of nominalism, but nominalist theses typically deny the existence of universals or abstract entities.
Nominalism | Medieval Philosophy, Ontology & Metaphysics | Britannica
Nominalism, in philosophy, position taken in the dispute over universals—words that can be applied to individual things having something in common—that flourished especially in late medieval times.
NOMINALISM Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of NOMINALISM is a theory that there are no universal essences in reality and that the mind can frame no single concept or image corresponding to any universal or general term.
Nominalism: Why Only Particular Things Exist
Nominalism is the metaphysical doctrine that only particulars exist — there are no universal entities such as redness, justice or triangularity, nor abstract objects such as numbers and sets, except as names or convenient fictions.
Nominalism - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nominalism is a way of thinking that sides with simplicity, to explain the world without adding theories or things that aren't necessary. Some philosophers argue that nominalism helped turn modern thinking and continues to affect modern philosophy and science.
Nominalism - Philopedia
Nominalism is the broad family of philosophical views that deny the existence of universals and other robust abstract objects in favor of a world composed fundamentally of particulars.
Nominalism - New World Encyclopedia
Nominalism is the philosophical view that abstract concepts, general terms, or universals have no independent existence but exist only as names. It also claims that various individual objects labeled by the same term have nothing in common but their name.
Nominalism in Metaphysics - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Nominalism comes in at least two varieties. In one of them it is the rejection of abstract objects; in the other it is the rejection of universals. Philosophers have often found it necessary to postulate either abstract objects or universals.
Nominalism - Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
‘Nominalism’ refers to a reductionist approach to problems about the existence and nature of abstract entities; it thus stands opposed to Platonism and realism.
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