notebook/notes/ontology/nominalism.md

title	TARGET DECK	FILE TAGS	tags
Nominalism	Obsidian::H&SS	ontology::nominalism	nominalism ontology

Overview

Anti-realists about a category are those who don't believe entities of said category exist. Realists about a category are those that do. Nominalism refers to the stance that no abstract objects exist. That is, nominalists are anti-realists in regards to abstract entities.

%%ANKI Basic What does it mean for a person to be anti-realist about category X? Back: They do not believe entities of X exist. Reference: Nikk Effingham, An Introduction to Ontology (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013).

END%%

%%ANKI Basic What does it mean for a person to be realist about category X? Back: They believe entities belonging to X exist. Reference: Nikk Effingham, An Introduction to Ontology (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013).

END%%

%%ANKI Basic How does Effingham define nominalism? Back: As anti-realism towards abstracta. Reference: Nikk Effingham, An Introduction to Ontology (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013).

END%%

%%ANKI Cloze Roughly speaking, {1:permissivism} is to {2:realism} whereas {2:nominalism} is to {1:anti-realism}. Reference: Nikk Effingham, An Introduction to Ontology (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013).

END%%

Bibliography

• Nikk Effingham, An Introduction to Ontology (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013).