nominalisticallyadv.
/ˌnɒmᵻnlˈɪstᵻkli/, /ˌnɒmᵻnəˈlɪstᵻkli/, U.S. /ˈˌnɑmənəˈlɪstək(ə)li/ Chiefly Philosophy.
In a way characteristic of nominalists or nominalism; in nominalistic terms.
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1918 Stud. Hist. Ideas 1 208 The mob must agree with him when once it is nominalistically enlightened, and even the materialists cannot escape, for with them the existence of what we perceive consists in its being perceived.
1939 Mind 48 246 To save himself he would have to read ‘satisfaction’ nominalistically.
1969 Ethics 80 22/2 It may be that the particular will and the general will are related nominalistically.
1995 Philos. Rev. 104 127 The usual difficulties of finding a nominalistically acceptable subject matter for arithmetic.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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