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I am trying to understand what nominalism is?
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October 7, 2005

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Peter Lipton
October 7, 2005 (changed October 7, 2005) Permalink

Nominalism is the view that everything that exists is particular. Thus there is no property of being red that all red things share (though there is the word 'red' that we apply to various things).

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