nominalism
English
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Etymology
[edit]From French nominalisme. By surface analysis, nominal + -ism.
Noun
[edit]nominalism (countable and uncountable, plural nominalisms)
- (philosophy) A doctrine that universals do not have an existence except as names for classes of concrete objects.
- 2021, Meghan O'Gieblyn, chapter 11, in God, Human, Animal, Machine […] , →ISBN:
- Blumenberg's thesis, which has since been reiterated by a number of philosophers and historians, is that nominalism, as it became widespread in Protestant theology, led to the Enlightenment, disenchantment, and the scientific revolution.
Antonyms
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Anagrams
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French nominalisme. By surface analysis, nominal + -ism.
Noun
[edit]nominalism n (uncountable)
Declension
[edit]| singular only | indefinite | definite |
|---|---|---|
| nominative-accusative | nominalism | nominalismul |
| genitive-dative | nominalism | nominalismului |
| vocative | nominalismule | |
Swedish
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[edit]nominalism c
Declension
[edit]| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | nominalism | nominalisms |
| definite | nominalismen | nominalismens | |
| plural | indefinite | — | — |
| definite | — | — |
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- English terms derived from French
- English terms suffixed with -ism
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Philosophy
- English terms with quotations
- Romanian terms borrowed from French
- Romanian terms derived from French
- Romanian terms suffixed with -ism
- Romanian lemmas
- Romanian nouns
- Romanian uncountable nouns
- Romanian neuter nouns
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish nouns
- Swedish common-gender nouns
- sv:Philosophy