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Definition of: nominalism
(nom′ə·nəl·iz′əm) noun Philos.
The doctrine that abstract or generic conceptions, or universals, have no basis or representation in reality but are names only, and that only individual objects exist: opposed to realism. Compare CONCEPTUALISM.
—nom′i·nal·ist adjective & noun
—nom′i·nal·is′tic adjective
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