wéi​míng​lùn

nominalism

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    nominalism

    A philosophical view that universal concepts or abstract objects do not exist in reality or in thought; instead, only individual objects exist while concepts are merely names. This position stands in contrast to [[实在论|實在論|shi2 zai4 lun4]].

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