nominalist

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One of a sect of philosophers in the Middle Ages, who adopted the opinion of Roscelin, that general conceptions, or universals, exist in name only.

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Tactically, conceptualism is no doubt the strongest position of the three; for the tired nominalist can lapse into conceptualism and still allay his puritanic conscience with the reflection that he has not quite taken to eating lotus with the Platonists. Willard van Orman Quine

For this reason Ockham has sometimes also been called a "terminist", to distinguish him from a nominalist or a conceptualist. Source: Internet

Popper himself is a realist as opposed to an idealist, but a methodological nominalist as opposed to an essentialist. Source: Internet

He flirted with Nelson Goodman 's nominalism for a while, but backed away when he failed to find a nominalist grounding of mathematics. Source: Internet

Ian Hacking has also argued that much of what is called social constructionism of science in contemporary times is actually motivated by an unstated nominalist metaphysical view. Source: Internet

Parsons concept of analytical realism can be regarded as a kind of compromise between nominalist and realist views on the nature of reality and human knowledge. Source: Internet

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