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nominalistic

nominalistic adjective: having a nominalist character.

Adjective

nominalistic (comparative more nominalistic, superlative most nominalistic)

  1. Having a nominalist character
    • The debate over whether or not there are sets, or numbers, or other abstracta, shouldn’t be pursued by trying to work out whether talk of such things is paraphrasable away into a nominalistic language[…].2008 April 1, Ross P. Cameron, “Truthmakers and ontological commitment: or how to deal with complex objects and mathematical ontology without getting into”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 140...

Forms of nominalistic

comparativemore nominalistic
superlativemost nominalistic

Origin of nominalistic

From nominalist + -ic.

Words formed from nominalistic

Questions about nominalistic

What does nominalistic mean?
Nominalistic means having a nominalist character.
What part of speech is nominalistic?
Nominalistic is an adjective.

Words near nominalistic in the dictionary

  1. nominalises
  2. nominalising
  3. nominalism
  4. nominalisms
  5. nominalist
  6. nominalistic
  7. nominalistically
  8. nominalists
  9. nominality
  10. nominalizable
  11. nominalization

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