“The alternative between a theological and an independent theory of ethics is, he holds, the alternative between ethical nominalism and realism.”

“That means the status of strings in string theory in physics can become a philosophical topic by way of discussions of realism and nominalism.”

“William was somewhat of a minimalist in philosophy, advocating nominalism against the more popular view of realism.”

“Of course, it would be too much for a single nominalist to provide an acceptable version of each respectable scientific theory.”

“Thus, in the nominalist doctrine, names are make-believes bearing no relation to the real.”

“If 'make-believisation' is not nominalist, it does however indicate the limits of the realism of structure.”

“A curious fact about adjectives and the way they modify nominals is that very often predicative uses have a more limited range of meanings than the attributive uses.”

“The German use of adnominal genitives is explored in another article, as is the innate deficiency of nominals in English.”

“Distributionally and semantically similar nominals like misfortune and mischief lack a source for a verbal base.”