(For a good in-depth discussion and critique of the various paraphrase nominalist views, see Burgess and Rosen (1997).).    From Wordnik.com.  [Platonism in Metaphysics] Reference

And be a skeptic or nominalist about social kinds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-11-01] Reference

Ockham was emphatically a nominalist in this sense.    From Wordnik.com.  [William of Ockham] Reference

If a nominalist uses the term, it is a mere flatus vocis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas] Reference

This makes Mill in more recent terminology a nominalist.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Stuart Mill] Reference

Yet Marsilius never qualified himself as a nominalist or follower of Ockham.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marsilius of Inghen] Reference

Where does the nominalist find the required collection of concrete entities?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philosophy of Mathematics] Reference

There is a very well-known nominalist response to the One Over Many argument.    From Wordnik.com.  [Platonism in Metaphysics] Reference

The education in Erfurt and Leipzig included the reading of nominalist authors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marsilius of Inghen] Reference

It would seem, therefore, that a nominalist cannot consistently affirm that theory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Metaphysics] Reference

I am not a collectivist, not even a Hegelian, and almost as much a nominalist as he is.    From Wordnik.com.  ['The Sense of Order': An Exchange] Reference

We saw in Principles, to the contrary, the nominalist inclination which may support (B).    From Wordnik.com.  [Descartes' Theory of Ideas] Reference

Some views in the philosophy of mathematics are anti-nominalist without being platonist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Platonism in the Philosophy of Mathematics] Reference

Can a strict nominalist such as Ockham really accept quantification over possible beings?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Statue of a Writer] Reference

Although the nominalist theory is not clearly worked out here, it is clearly related to the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pragmatism] Reference

But, the nominalist claims, there is no kind of entity beyond the individual instances of each kind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Natural Kinds] Reference

He generally takes a nominalist line, and will have no truck with propositions expressed by sentences.    From Wordnik.com.  [William Heytesbury] Reference

We noted that Leśniewski, persuaded by his argument against Twardowski's general objects, was a nominalist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stanisław Leśniewski] Reference

For Descartes, every existing thing is indeed a particular, and that will satisfy his nominalist inclinations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Descartes' Theory of Ideas] Reference

Ockham was a nominalist, indeed he is the person whose name is perhaps most famously associated with nominalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [William of Ockham] Reference

Each declares himself a moralist in philosophy, a nominalist in world view, and an antitotalitarian in politics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paris: Moses and Polytheism] Reference

If this is what propositions are, then the nominalist needs a satisfactory nominalistic account of ordered sets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nominalism in Metaphysics] Reference

At the end of their article, Lyon and Colyvan also review a few possible moves the nominalist can make in response.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explanation in Mathematics] Reference

For this reason nominalist ante rem structuralism is sometimes described as “structuralism without structures”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philosophy of Mathematics] Reference

Both the nominalist and realist solutions to Porphyry's problem are thus too simplistic and lack proper distinction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Albert the Great] Reference

Another nominalist option is to deny that there are propositions and any entities that play their theoretical roles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nominalism in Metaphysics] Reference

Or the substance monist might be a nihilist for t2 counted by u1, by being an eliminative nominalist about properties.    From Wordnik.com.  [Monism] Reference

The nominalist structuralist denies that any concrete physical system is the unique intended interpretation of analysis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philosophy of Mathematics] Reference

He is, arguably, the greatest logician of the Middle Ages and is equally famous as the first great nominalist philosopher.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter Abelard] Reference

The possibility of being a nominalist in one sense but not in the other has been exemplified in the history of philosophy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nominalism in Metaphysics] Reference

This sounds like a traditional nominalist position: there are no genuinely universal beings, we merely apply the same term.    From Wordnik.com.  [Descartes' Theory of Ideas] Reference

But does that mean we must say that essences are universal beings, and thus inconsistent with Descartes 'nominalist leanings?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Descartes' Theory of Ideas] Reference

And the entities invoked (objects, properties, and times) should be perfectly familiar to all but the most austere nominalist.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Metaphysics of Causation] Reference

For example, the nominalist might take the world to be made up of individuals, which can be classified as kinds in a natural way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Natural Kinds] Reference

The resemblance nominalist ontology is an ontology of resembling particulars like horses, atoms, houses, stars, men (and classes).    From Wordnik.com.  [Nominalism in Metaphysics] Reference

In philosophy, he defended a range of materialist, nominalist, and empiricist views against Cartesian and Aristotelian alternatives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thomas Hobbes] Reference

For Ockham, only individ - uals exist; man as an abstract category is a creation of the mind — such is his essentially nominalist thesis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

But this seems to be based on the thought that what makes a position nominalist is the rejection of properties, numbers, propositions, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nominalism in Metaphysics] Reference

Where Husserl's categories were of abstract meanings, Leśniewski, ever the nominalist, substituted categories of (concrete) expressions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stanisław Leśniewski] Reference