41. This alternative highlights that it is Hume's presumption of nominalism that grounds his account of the problem of induction. 42. Weaver viewed America's moral degradation and turn toward commodity-culture as the unwitting consequences of its belief in nominalism . 43. The old controversy regarding the nature of Universals had not yet subsided, and in the university of Basel Nominalism held sway. 44. Where in the tenets of Nominalism abstract concepts ( immaterial things ) are considered not real but rather constructs of the mind. 45. Nominalism arose in reaction to the problem of universals, specifically accounting for the fact that some things are of the same type.46. His nominalism was so much opposed to the contemporary philosophical realism that the third period of Scholasticism is made to begin with him. 47. Nominalism usually means that you are an adherent to a religion by culture or upbringing, but not necessarily in belief or practice.48. The " Post Res " or eliminative variant of structuralism is anti-realist about structures in a way that parallels nominalism . 49. Stemming from a tradition of " cultural pessimism ", his critique of nominalism , however startling, gave conservatives a new philosophical direction. 50. In the debate about philosophical universals, Quinton defended a variety of nominalism that identifies properties with a set of " natural " classes.
