This entry surveys nominalistic theories of both varieties.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nominalism in Metaphysics] Reference

It is very difficult even to find a nominalistic paraphrase for.    From Wordnik.com.  [Types and Tokens] Reference

According to his nominalistic preferences, they are concrete physical objects.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lvov-Warsaw School] Reference

In addition, the nominalistic replacement would also have the virtue of providing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explanation in Mathematics] Reference

The nominalistic reconstruction of scientific theories proved to be a difficult task.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philosophy of Mathematics] Reference

If Nocrates says he is a realist, then he is wrong (since his world is nominalistic).    From Wordnik.com.  [An Argument from Realism Against Naturalism about Human Beings] Reference

Such a view would be broadly nominalistic about properties, and it is rather controversial.    From Wordnik.com.  [Logic and Ontology] Reference

Yet "Plato is wise" has a different meaning in the realistic world vs. the nominalistic world.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Argument from Realism Against Naturalism about Human Beings] Reference

Mr. Escalante's arguments are further proof of his philosphical commitment to nominalistic categories.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-02-01] Reference

Beyond the realistic/nominalistic distinction, you don't specify whether the worlds are otherwise identical.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Argument from Realism Against Naturalism about Human Beings] Reference

But mereology carries no nominalistic commitment to concreta either: the parts can be as abstract as the whole.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wild Dreams Of Reality, 3] Reference

John Stuart Mill endeavored to explain the reasonings of science by the nominalistic metaphysics of his father.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-06-01] 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

If carried to the extreme this caveat would indeed dictate a pluralistic and even nominalistic inter - pretation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

What follows is a brief review of the main nominalistic positions of this sort, and of some of the problems they face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nominalism in Metaphysics] Reference

Lovejoy's nominalistic disin - tegration of the concept was pushed then much further by some scholars both in England and the United.    From Wordnik.com.  [ROMANTICISM IN LITERATURE] Reference

The notion of “judicial restraint” is akin to the nominalistic interpretation of historical documents, legal or spiritual, as “mere text”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Samuel Alito’s America] Reference

GEM is a powerful theory, and it was meant to be so by its nominalistic forerunners, who were thinking of mereology as a good alternative to set theory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wild Dreams Of Reality, 3] Reference

The most I could assert would be to have disproved the nominalistic view, which considers mathematics to consist solely in syntactical conventions and their consequences.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kurt Gödel] Reference

But that is not the end of the singular term argument for the existence of abstract mathematical objects, for we still need to consider nominalistic views of sentences like.    From Wordnik.com.  [Platonism in Metaphysics] Reference

He tended to blame what he regarded as the errors of much of the philosophy of his contemporaries as owing to the nominalistic disregard for the objective existence of form.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nobody Knows Nothing] Reference

Albert's distinction thus allowed him to harmonize Plato's realism in which universals existed as separate forms with Aristotle's more nominalistic theory of immanent forms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Albert the Great] Reference

It should be noted, though, that several different defenders of fictionalism have responded to worries about the nominalistic status of their own particular versions of fictionalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fictionalism in the Philosophy of Mathematics] Reference

Hobbes, but Leibniz 'youthful nominalistic inclinations did not keep him from a conceptualistic theory of combinations, a connotative interpretation of logic, and an Augustinian theology.    From Wordnik.com.  [PERENNIAL PHILOSOPHY] Reference

However correct the nominalistic conception of number may be in such a case as that of numbering the five apples, it is wholly incorrect to restrict the concept of number itself to one valid for this kind of occurrence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man or Matter] Reference

Blood parodizes this demand in true nominalistic fashion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memories and Studies] Reference

Calvin, too, had pronounced rationalistic and nominalistic tendencies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biblical Evidence for Catholicism] Reference

The principle, however, is to be understood in the realistic, not in the nominalistic sense.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference

It is not strange, then, that the ardent realism of William of Champeaux should have been outraged by the nominalistic logic of Abelard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Historia Calamitatum: The Story of My Misfortunes] Reference

In these two points of view we seem to have again the contrast and the opposition, already referred to, between the nominalistic and realistic conceptions of society.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the Science of Sociology] Reference

˜F™ ” some would prefer a more nominalistic base-clause for satisfaction, hoping to get by without seriously invoking properties.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Correspondence Theory of Truth] Reference

Nocrates lives in the nominalistic world.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Argument from Realism Against Naturalism about Human Beings] Reference

˜color™”, but obviously this will not do as a nominalistic paraphrase, for it contains a reference to a type.    From Wordnik.com.  [Types and Tokens] Reference

This methodological individualism has been vehemently attacked by various metaphysical schools and disparaged as a nominalistic fallacy. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Rational Review] Reference

(2) By getting rid of Platonistic elements in his treat - ment of natural selection, Darwin established evolu - tionary science on a nominalistic basis.    From Wordnik.com.  [EVOLUTIONISM] Reference