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nominalism

Other forms: nominalisms

Definitions of nominalism
  1. noun
    (philosophy) the doctrine that the various objects labeled by the same term have nothing in common but their name
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    type of:
    philosophical doctrine, philosophical theory
    a doctrine accepted by adherents to a philosophy
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