Nominalistic

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Having a nominalist character

    "The debate over whether or not there are sets, or numbers, or other abstracta, shouldn’t be pursued by trying to work out whether talk of such things is paraphrasable away into a nominalistic language[…]."

Adjective
  1. 1
    of or relating to nominalism wordnet

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"The debate over whether or not there are sets, or numbers, or other abstracta, shouldn’t be pursued by trying to work out whether talk of such things is paraphrasable away into a nominalistic language[…]."

Etymology

From nominalist + -ic.

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