nominalism
/nom-uh-nl-iz-uhm/US // ˈnɒm ə nlˌɪz əm //UK // (ˈnɒmɪnəˌlɪzəm) //
唯名主义,唯名论,名义主义,无名氏
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : 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.
Examples
His plan was to make theology plain and simple by founding it on the philosophical principles of nominalism.
This gives a wrong impression about Nominalism, that it was banned in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
Rosmini, in an elaborate criticism, complains that Stewart did not perceive the inevitable tendency of nominalism to materialism.
Ockham in particular falls very short of what I had expected; and his nominalism is strangely different from that of Berkeley.
Thus far nominalism triumphs; but now we arrive at the physical sciences, properly so called.
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