Definition of "nominalism"
noun
countable and uncountable, plural nominalisms
(philosophy) A doctrine that universals do not have an existence except as names for classes of concrete objects.
Quotations
Blumenberg's thesis, which has since been reiterated by a number of philosophers and historians, is that nominalism, as it became widespread in Protestant theology, led to the Enlightenment, disenchantment, and the scientific revolution.
2021, Meghan O'Gieblyn, chapter 11, in God, Human, Animal, Machine […]