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What does nominalistic mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word nominalistic? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. (philosophy) Having a nominalist character
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His approach is broadly nominalistic, but Buridan's nominalism is more of a parsimonious way of doing philosophy than a doctrine about universals.
Barash himself seems to follow a highly nominalistic account of species.
The first aspect of Field's case is to rebut this charge, by providing nominalistic formulations of scientific theories.
Paul Tillich says that this is a characteristic of all nominalistic theology.
The fragility of this harmony was first exposed by the nominalistic philosophy of William of Ockham.

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