(n.) One of a sect of philosophers in the Middle Ages, who adopted the opinion of Roscelin, that general conceptions, or universals, exist in name only.
Example Sentences:
(1) This nominalist analysis of the medical usages of the names of diseases has consequences for definitions of health and disease, and for some problems in medical ethics.
(2) A nominalist approach would facilitate study of aetiological factors and variables in the natural history of diseases.
(3) Taking into account advances in the empirical sciences, it is termed nominalistic or constructivistic correspondence theory.
(4) Gillon summarizes the realist and nominalist approaches to disease and to the question whether it is an evaluative or a value free concept.
(5) Thus persons with a dominant left hemisphere tend to prefer nominalist ontology and have more aptitude for ordinal mathematics than for cardinal mathematics, while persons with a dominant right hemisphere tend to prefer platonist ontology and have more aptitude for cardinal mathematics than for ordinal mathematics.
(6) Doctors have obviously accepted more heterogeneous defining characteristics but remain reluctant to adopt unequivocally nominalist ways of thought.
Nominalistic
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Nominalists.
Example Sentences:
(1) This nominalist analysis of the medical usages of the names of diseases has consequences for definitions of health and disease, and for some problems in medical ethics.
(2) A nominalist approach would facilitate study of aetiological factors and variables in the natural history of diseases.
(3) Taking into account advances in the empirical sciences, it is termed nominalistic or constructivistic correspondence theory.
(4) Gillon summarizes the realist and nominalist approaches to disease and to the question whether it is an evaluative or a value free concept.
(5) Thus persons with a dominant left hemisphere tend to prefer nominalist ontology and have more aptitude for ordinal mathematics than for cardinal mathematics, while persons with a dominant right hemisphere tend to prefer platonist ontology and have more aptitude for cardinal mathematics than for ordinal mathematics.
(6) Doctors have obviously accepted more heterogeneous defining characteristics but remain reluctant to adopt unequivocally nominalist ways of thought.