NOUN
- (philosophy) the doctrine that the various objects labeled by the same term have nothing in common but their name
How To Use nominalism In A Sentence
- Please note that whether Socrates or Nocrates (Sid or Nid) believe realism/nominalism is true is beside the point. An Argument from Realism Against Naturalism about Human Beings
- In the language of nominalism, the terms ‘black’ and ‘white’ purport to have mutually exclusive intensions and should therefore have mutually exclusive extensions, which they do not.
- This is closely related to the epiphenominalism theory of mind that it is an evolutionary accident emerging from the increasing complexity of brains as an "epiphenomenon" or side effect of neural complexity. Coordinated Evolution
- The nominalism of days past is now in a hostile, secular environment.
- Traditional, central, philosophical debates, such as those between realism and nominalism in regard to universals, are purportedly deflated by Wittgensteinian approaches.
- His unorthodox approach to art is part of a general approach to knowledge and reality, and is always pervasively informed by his cognitivism, nominalism, relativism, and constructivism.
- What it seems that we have done is to locate ourselves more decisively on one side of the continental divide of the old Christian world, between realism and nominalism.
- Nocrates lives in the possible world where nominalism is true. An Argument from Realism Against Naturalism about Human Beings
- William was somewhat of a minimalist in philosophy, advocating nominalism against the more popular view of realism.
- If so, it would be classified as nominalism in ontology, and as conventionalism in logical theory. A Special Supplement: The Development of Wittgenstein's Philosophy