Definition of Nominalists. Meaning of Nominalists. Synonyms of Nominalists

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Definition of Nominalists

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 Nominalists 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,...
- of the doctrines of Plato, just as modern nominalists need not accept the doctrines of medieval Nominalists." "Abstract Objects" Archived 2013-12-02 at...
- independent, abstract universals to account for attribute agreement. Nominalists deny that universals exist, claiming that they are not necessary to explain...
- incomprehensible unless universals exist outside of the mind, whereas nominalists believe that such ideas are 'empty verbalism'. Quine himself does not...
- intellectual activity. There was debate between the realists and the nominalists over the concept of "universals". Philosophical discourse was stimulated...
- sound without a corresponding objective reality; expression used by the nominalists of universals and traditionally attributed to the medieval philosopher...
- God. William of Ockham inspired anti-metaphysical tendencies with his nominalist limitation of human knowledge to singular objects, and ****erted that the...
- have roots in the medieval controversy between the nominalists and realists.[citation needed] Nominalists ****erted that only real things are entities and...
- neither a Platonist who believes in abstract logical entities, nor a nominalist according to whom the particular is first in the orders of explanation...
- considered an advocate of conceptualism rather than nominalism, for whereas nominalists held that universals were merely names, i.e. words rather than extant...