nominalismn.
/ˈnɒmᵻnl̩ɪz(ə)m/, /ˈnɒmᵻnəlɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈnɑmənlˌɪz(ə)m/, /ˈnɑmənəˌlɪz(ə)m/ 1. Philosophy. The view that things denominated by the same term share nothing except that fact; the view that such terms are mere names without any corresponding reality. Frequently opposed to realism (realism n. 2). Cf. conceptualism n. 1, essentialism n. 2.Nominalism was particularly influential in the 14th and 15th centuries, and is closely associated with the philosopher William of Ockham (d. ?1349).
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > scholasticism > [noun] > nominalism
nominalism1830
terminism1878
1830 Biblical Repertory 2 202 The above is simple, clear and convincing, and will, we trust, set at rest the question concerning nominalism and realism.
1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad II. i. 16 In some shape or other, Nominalism and Realism still divide between them the empire of thought.
1893 Speaker 4 Mar. 244/1 Nominalism..made him so cogent a critic of the mysteries that were repugnant to his reason.
1905 Jrnl. Philos., Psychol. & Sci. Methods 2 604 It is easy to see in all this where the root of the age-long controversy between realism and nominalism..lies.
1948 C. Hartshorne Divine Relativity iii. 122 Even if one takes the ‘conceptualist’ solution of the problem of nominalism and realism, one need not therefore deny that God may have something corresponding to concepts.
1983 Man 18 396/1 Mayr..has interpreted the history of Western biological theory as a recurring clash between essentialisms..and nominalism (doctrines positing an inter-breeding population of individual organisms grouped more or less arbitrarily by species names).
1999 M. Frayn Headlong (2000) 14 I decided to take a year off to launch my new career by writing a book about the impact of nominalism on Netherlandish art of the fifteenth century.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > mysticism > [noun] > rationalism
rationalisma1732
nominalism1836
1836 J. Keble Serm. (1848) viii. 215 The Nominalism of our days; I mean, the habit of resolving the high mysteries of the faith into mere circumstances of language.
1880 Scribner's Monthly 528/1 With that nominalism which is the easy snare of most men, Sunday-school people are generally confounded by the unfortunate word school in the title of the institution.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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