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  • Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of nominalism or the nominalists.

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to the Nominalists.

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  • adjective philosophy Having a nominalist character

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  • adjective of or relating to nominalism

Etymologies

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nominalist +‎ -ic

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Examples

  • On his side, Chwistek adhered to a kind of nominalistic position, and tried to develop a theory of constructive types for the foundations of analysis (his attempt of founding mathematics without the axiom of reducibility was called

    Paradoxes and Contemporary Logic Cantini, Andrea 2007

  • If Nocrates says he is a realist, then he is wrong (since his world is nominalistic).

    An Argument from Realism Against Naturalism about Human Beings 2008

  • Yet "Plato is wise" has a different meaning in the realistic world vs. the nominalistic world.

    An Argument from Realism Against Naturalism about Human Beings 2008

  • Beyond the realistic/nominalistic distinction, you don't specify whether the worlds are otherwise identical.

    An Argument from Realism Against Naturalism about Human Beings 2008

  • He tended to blame what he regarded as the errors of much of the philosophy of his contemporaries as owing to the nominalistic disregard for the objective existence of form.

    Nobody Knows Nothing 2009

  • GEM is a powerful theory, and it was meant to be so by its nominalistic forerunners, who were thinking of mereology as a good alternative to set theory.

    Wild Dreams Of Reality, 3 2009

  • This is the opinion of a man recognized as among the most profound of our century, and as I said, nothing can be more nominalistic than it.

    Thomas Hobbes Duncan, Stewart 2009

  • But mereology carries no nominalistic commitment to concreta either: the parts can be as abstract as the whole.

    Wild Dreams Of Reality, 3 2009

  • But that is not the end of the singular term argument for the existence of abstract mathematical objects, for we still need to consider nominalistic views of sentences like

    Platonism in Metaphysics Balaguer, Mark 2009

  • According to his nominalistic preferences, they are concrete physical objects.

    Lvov-Warsaw School Wole&324;ski, Jan 2009

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