What Is Nominalism and Realism
Realism Is the Philosophical Position That Posits That Universals Are Just as Real as Physical, Measurable Material. Nominalism Is the Philosophical Position...
Realism is the philosophical position that posits that universals are just as real as physical, measurable material. Nominalism is the philosophical position that promotes that universal or abstract concepts do not exist in the same way as physical, tangible material.
What do nominalists believe?
Nominalism, coming from the Latin word nominalis meaning “of or pertaining to names”, is the ontological theory that reality is only made up of particular items. It denies the real existence of any general entities such as properties, species, universals, sets, or other categories.
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What is wrong with nominalism?
Thus Nominalism, in both senses, is a kind of anti-realism. For one kind of Nominalism denies the existence, and therefore the reality, of universals and the other denies the existence, and therefore the reality, of abstract objects.
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