What's the difference between nominalist and nominalistic?

Nominalist


Definition:

  • (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.

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