Meanings
adjectivenominalistic (comparative more nominalistic, superlative most nominalistic)
comparative more nominalistic · superlative most nominalistic
- human sciencesHaving a nominalist character
The debate over whether or not there are sets, or numbers, or other abstracta, shouldn’t be pursued by trying to work out whether talk of such things is paraphrasable away into a nominalistic language[…].
2008 April 1, Ross P. Cameron, “Truthmakers and ontological commitment: or how to deal with complex objects and mathematical ontology without getting into”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 140, number 1, →DOI
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁nómn̥
- Proto-Italic*nōmn̥
- Latinnōmen
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
- Latinnōminālis
- Middle Englishnominalle
- Englishnominal
- Englishnominalist
- Englishnominalistic
From nominalist + -ic.
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