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Nominalism

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A doctrine that universals do not have an existence except as names for classes of concrete objects. countable, uncountable

    "Blumenberg's thesis, which has since been reiterated by a number of philosophers and historians, is that nominalism, as it became widespread in Protestant theology, led to the Enlightenment, disenchantment, and the scientific revolution."

  2. 2
    (philosophy) the doctrine that the various objects labeled by the same term have nothing in common but their name wordnet

Etymology

From French nominalisme. By surface analysis, nominal + -ism.

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