Explore Nominalist through 7 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like philosopher. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Nominalist meaning
An adherent of any of the various kinds of nominalism.
Synonyms of Nominalist
Using Nominalist
- The main meaning on this page is: An adherent of any of the various kinds of nominalism.
- Useful related words include: philosopher.
Context around Nominalist
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 3 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Nominalist
- In this selection, "nominalist" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 22.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, unstated, methodological, grounding, metaphysical and philosopher stand out and add context to how "nominalist" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a methodological nominalist as opposed and an unstated nominalist metaphysical view. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "nominalist" sits close to words such as aaba, aafc and aaib, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with nominalist
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Why I am not a nominalist. (6 words)
Popper himself is a realist as opposed to an idealist, but a methodological nominalist as opposed to an essentialist. (19 words)
For this reason Ockham has sometimes also been called a "terminist", to distinguish him from a nominalist or a conceptualist. (20 words)
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. (38 words)
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. (27 words)
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. (26 words)
Example sentences (7)
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.