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

Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.
Amy Tan