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Nominalism

noun
1.
(philosophy) the doctrine that the various objects labeled by the same term have nothing in common but their name.





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... 53. Pure Nominalism was the swing of the pendulum of thought to the very opposite extreme; while Conceptualism was an attempt to hit the happy mean ...
— Deductive Logic • St. George Stock
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... under them. Yet, though nominally rejected, this very doctrine, whether disguised under the Abstract Ideas of Locke (whose speculations, however, it has less vitiated than those of perhaps any other writer who has been infected with it), under the ultra-nominalism of Hobbes and Condillac, or the ontology of the later German schools, has never ceased to poison philosophy. Once accustomed to consider scientific investigation as essentially consisting in the study of universals, men did not drop this ...
— A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive • John Stuart Mill
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