Associations to the word «Nominalism»

Wiktionary

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

Dictionary definition

NOMINALISM, noun. (philosophy) the doctrine that the various objects labeled by the same term have nothing in common but their name.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope