Definition of Nominalist. Meaning of Nominalist. Synonyms of Nominalist

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Definition of Nominalist

Nominalist
Nominalist Nom"i*nal*ist, n. (Metaph.) One of a sect of philosophers in the Middle Ages, who adopted the opinion of Roscelin, that general conceptions, or universals, exist in name only. --Reid.

Meaning of Nominalist from wikipedia

- objects as such – objects that do not exist in space and time. Most nominalists have held that only physical particulars in space and time are real,...
- bicycle, an apple, and a particular woman's hair can all be red). In the nominalist view, everything is particular. A universal at each moment in time, from...
- artifacts, differs sharply with modern forms of idealism. One of the first nominalist critiques of Plato's realism was that of Diogenes of Sinope, who said...
- considered an advocate of conceptualism rather than nominalism, for whereas nominalists held that universals were merely names, i.e. words rather than extant...
- intellectual activity. There was a debate between the realists and the nominalists over the concept of "universals". Philosophical discourse was stimulated...
- God. William of Ockham inspired anti-metaphysical tendencies with his nominalist limitation of human knowledge to singular objects, and ****erted that the...
- the scholastic Roscelin was accused of tritheism. He was an extreme nominalist who saw the three divine persons as separately existing. He was condemned...
- of a schism. In 1383 Marsilius and Albert of Saxony went to spread the nominalist doctrine at [where?]. In 1386, Marsiluis became the first rector of the...
- interconnections between certain aspects of nominalist philosophy and theology and works of literature. While the presence of nominalist ideas in fiction and poetry has...
- natural philosophy. Prior thinkers, including the early-14th-century nominalist philosopher William of Ockham, had begun the intellectual movement toward...