What Is Nominalist Ontology

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.

Is Hume a nominalist?

Of the English empiricists, Hume alone is in Meinong’s eyes worthy of the title “nominalist” for Hume alone thinks of nothing other than words as representing generalities.

What is resemblance nominalism?

If resemblance nominalism is anything, it is the idea that having a property is resembling certain things. The idea must be implemented by specifying what things something must resemble in order to have a property. But the specification cannot be given in terms of what properties these things must have.