nominalism
nounEtymology From French nominalisme. By surface analysis, nominal + -ism.
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Human sciences, Philosophy, Sciences A doctrine that universals do not have an existence except as names for classes of concrete objects.
- 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.2021, Meghan O'Gieblyn, chapter 11, in God, Human, Animal, Machine […] , →ISBN:
- Derived terms
- antinominalism
- Related terms
- nominality, nominalness, problem of universals, universalism