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# Word of the day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/word-of-the-day-1466/
- Published: 2019-05-30T18:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2019-07-22T21:15:58.000Z
- Author: Peter Andersen
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 04:14

The word for today is…

nominalism (noun) – (Philosophy) The doctrine holding that abstract concepts, general terms, or universals have no independent existence but exist only as names.

Source : [The Free Dictionary](https://www.thefreedictionary.com/nominalism?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : 1820, “view that treats abstract concepts as names only, not realities,” from French nominalisme (1752), from nominal, from Latin nominalis.