Nominalists

Nominalism Nominalists hold that universals are not real mind-independent entities but either merely concepts (sometimes called "conceptualism") or merely names.

Nominalists and realists argue over the existence of properties and relations.

Nominalists consider it unusual that there could be a single thing that exists in multiple places simultaneously.

Nominalists deny that universals exist, claiming that they are not necessary to explain attribute agreement.

Nominalists often argue for their view by claiming that nominalism can account for all the relevant phenomena, and therefore—by Occam's razor or some sort of principle of simplicity—nominalism is preferable, since it posits fewer entities.

Some resemblance nominalists will concede that the resemblance relation is itself a universal, but is the only universal necessary.

There was debate between the realists and the nominalists over the concept of " universals ".