Nominalist

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

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

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.

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.

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

The term "nominalism" comes from the Latin nomen ("name"), since the nominalist philosopher agrees that we predicate the same property of multiple entities but argues that the entities only share a name, not a real quality, in common.

Why I am not a nominalist.