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Fortunately, the Fourth Circuit spoke up clearly, in exactly the way wise nominalists always did back in the eleventh century.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 24, 2017

It is certainly true that the arguments of the nominalists are theocentric, but as we shall see this is not true for other ways of thinking about laws of nature.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

The regularists are the heirs of the nominalists; the necessitarians of the Epicureans.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Those who thought a concept a mere class-name applied to a group of objects because of some common characteristics were called nominalists.

From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Park, Robert Ezra

It was the France of Louis VI and Sager which formed the background for the great battle between the realists and the nominalists, the battle in which Abélard played no small part.

From Historia Calamitatum by Abelard, Peter