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Nominalism

Scope note

Theory that there are no universal essences in reality, that the mind can frame no single concept or image corresponding to any universal or general term, and that only individual concrete entities have existence. WCOL9

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

300070544

Created

13yrs ago

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