nominalism

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

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nominalism (countable and uncountable, plural nominalisms)

  1. (philosophy) A doctrine that universals do not have an existence except as names for classes of concrete objects.
    • 2021, Meghan O'Gieblyn, chapter 11, in God, Human, Animal, Machine [] , →ISBN:
      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.

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Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from French nominalisme. By surface analysis, nominal +‎ -ism.

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nominalism n (uncountable)

  1. nominalism

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nominalism c

  1. nominalism

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Declension of nominalism 
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Indefinite Definite
Nominative nominalism nominalismen
Genitive nominalisms nominalismens

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