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nominalist, n. (and a.)|ˈnɒmɪnəlɪst|
[f. nominal a. 2 + -ist. Cf. F. nominaliste (1752).]
One who maintains or accepts the doctrine of nominalism. Also attrib. or as adj.
1654Jer. Taylor Real Pres. 89 This was the sense of Ocham the Father of the Nominalists. a1695[see realist 2]. a1751Bolingbroke Ess. iv. xli. Wks. 1754 IV. 624 The dispute..between the nominalists and realists about the nature of universals. 1816Coleridge Lay Serm. (Bohn) 356 Laodiceans in spirit, Minims in faith, and Nominalists in philosophy. 1839Hallam Hist. Lit. iii. iii. §153 Hartley also resembles Hobbes in the extreme to which he has pushed the nominalist theory. 1843Mill Logic i. vi. §1 The doctrine of the extreme nominalists that it is an expression of an agreement or disagreement between the meanings of two names. 1880A. H. Huth Life Buckle I. ii. 123 Horne Tooke was a nominalist and sensationalist. 1885Pattison Mem. 170, I had not yet abandoned my nominalist foundations. 1965Listener 9 Dec. 942/1 How much more nominalist, in a way, the whole society is. |