Questions tagged [nominalism]

Nominalism is the position that universals and/or abstract objects do not exist

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Is nominalism to assert something is only what we call it?

Is the following concise definition of nominalism correct: Nominalism is to assert something is only what we call it. ? Or are there problems with it?
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