Etymology

nominalism

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Today it means: A doctrine that universals do not have an existence except as names for classes of concrete objects. Full definition →

French nominalisme
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  1. French · derived fromnominalisme
  2. English todaynominalism

From French nominalisme. By surface analysis, nominal + -ism.

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