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The 15 pages that link to Nominalism, each with the reason it gives.

• ScholasticismCompared with: Nominalist arguments challenged realist accounts of universals within scholastic debates.

• EssentialismCompared with: It disputes the existence of real shared essences behind general categories.

• OntologyCompared with: It rejects one prominent answer to what shared properties are.

• SubstanceCompared with: It resists treating shared kinds or properties as independently existing entities.

• ThomismCompared with: Its treatment of universals contrasts with Thomist realism about shared natures.

• William of OckhamBroader topic: Ockham’s account treats universals as signs rather than extra realities shared by individuals.

• UniversalsCompared with: It rejects universals as real shared entities and explains common predication without them.

• Theory of FormsCompared with: Nominalism rejects the independent abstract realities that Plato’s theory posits.

• Ernst CassirerCompared with: Cassirer’s account of concepts treats scientific relations as more than mere names imposed on particulars.

• Medieval philosophyCompared with: Nominalists challenged the realist account of what shared concepts refer to.

• Problem of universalsCompared with: It rejects universals as entities beyond particular things and names.

• Platonic realismCompared with: Nominalism rejects the independent universals that Platonic realism affirms.

• Quality (philosophy)Compared with: It rejects one influential account of how qualities can be shared by many things.

• Marsilius of InghenRelated: Marsilius is associated with nominalist approaches to universals and philosophical language.

• ModistaeCompared with: Its doubts about universals challenge the realist foundations of Modistae theory.