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nominalism  class nominalism  constitutional nominalism  Logical nominalism  mathematical nominalism
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(philosophy) the doctrine that the various objects labeled by the same term have nothing in common but their name WordNet 3.0
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(philosophy) the doctrine that the various objects labeled by the same term have nothing in common but their name WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
In metaphysics, nominalism is the view that universals and abstract objects do not actually exist other than being merely names or labels. Wikipedia
A doctrine that universals do not have an existence except as names for classes of concrete objects. Wiktionary