nominalism

Meanings

Plural: nominalisms

Noun

(philosophy) the doctrine that the various objects labeled by the same term have nothing in common but their name
A doctrine that universals do not have an existence except as names for classes of concrete objects.

Origin / Etymology

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

Antonyms

realism

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