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Webster 1913 Edition

Nominalist

Nom′i-nal-ist

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Noun.
(Metaph.)
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.
Reid.

Webster 1828 Edition

Nominalist

NOMINALIST

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Noun.
The Nominalists were a sect of school philosophers, the disciples of Ocham or Ocdcam, in the 14th century, who maintained that words and not things are the object of dialectics. They were the founders of the university of Leipsic.

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