| William was somewhat of a minimalist in philosophy, advocating nominalism against the more popular view of realism. |
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| That means the status of strings in string theory in physics can become a philosophical topic by way of discussions of realism and nominalism. |
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| The alternative between a theological and an independent theory of ethics is, he holds, the alternative between ethical nominalism and realism. |
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| For nominalism, the real and the names present themselves as radically separate and impenetrable realities. |
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| Traditional, central, philosophical debates, such as those between realism and nominalism in regard to universals, are purportedly deflated by Wittgensteinian approaches. |
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| Moreover, this proposal was incompatible with the definition of reservations that was ultimately selected, which rejected nominalism entirely. |
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| His approach is broadly nominalistic, but Buridan's nominalism is more of a parsimonious way of doing philosophy than a doctrine about universals. |
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| The historical clash between nominalism and metallism has been largely won by the first one, even if the references and the defense of metallist theories still hold an interest in many books and writings on this matter. |
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| This is why the value conferred upon the make-believe in analytic practice supposes a position being taken up with regard to the dispute between nominalism and realism. |
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| Occam's philosophy is called nominalism or sometimes terminism because it sought the simplest explanations that could account for phenomena. |
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| When nominalism postulates that the universals are simple flatus vocis, it is led to admit that the universals do not refer back to anything real. |
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| His friend Kotarbiński formulated a very extreme nominalism, called variously reism, pansomatism, and concretism, according to which the only things that exist are material bodies. |
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| This view is called constructive nominalism. |
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| I will focus here on mathematical nominalism. |
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| The subjective approach to social science is based on an ontology of nominalism, an anti-positivist epistemology, voluntarism, and an ideographic methodology. |
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| An important moment of this evolution was the fourteenth century nominalism of William of Ockham, who held that nothing exists but particular beings. |
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| Different philosophical trends as found in disciplines such as Nominalism, Realism, Phenomenalism, Significs, Semiotic, Logical Positivism, etc. |
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