Thoroughgoing nominalists would withhold this concession, as Roscelin, a medieval nominalist, is said to have done. The nominalist position did not necessarily deny, however, that there must be some similarity between the particular things to which the general word is applied. Nominalism denied the real being of universals on the ground that the use of a general word ( e.g., “humanity”) does not imply the existence of a general thing named by it. Nominalism, in philosophy, position taken in the dispute over universals-words that can be applied to individual things having something in common-that flourished especially in late medieval times. SpaceNext50 Britannica presents SpaceNext50, From the race to the Moon to space stewardship, we explore a wide range of subjects that feed our curiosity about space!.Learn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them! Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century.Britannica Beyond We’ve created a new place where questions are at the center of learning.100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians.
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