nominalistic
adjEtymology From nominalist + -ic.
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Human sciences, Philosophy, Sciences 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[…].2008 April 1, Ross P. Cameron, “Truthmakers and ontological commitment: or how to deal with complex objects and mathematical ontology without getting into”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 140, number 1, →DOI:
- Derived terms
- nominalistically