Find more facts and information on our topic page about
nominalism
NOMINALIZATION
Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
|
1998
|
|
© Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language 1998, originally published by Oxford University Press 1998. (Hide copyright information)
Copyright
NOMINALIZATION. 1. The process or result of forming a
NOUN from a word belonging to another word class:
writing/writings and
shaving/shavings derived from
write and
shave by adding
-ing;
sanity derived from
sane by the addition of the noun-forming suffix
-ity;
nominalization derived from
nominalize by adding
-ation.
2. The process or result of deriving a noun phrase by a transformation from a finite clause:
their rejecting my complaint or
their rejection of my complaint from
They rejected my complaint.
Cite this article
Pick a style below, and copy the text for your bibliography.
|
Nominalism. (M.E.M.O).(Christian worship)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Christian Century; 10/24/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...shelf of false deities have been gods of nominalism, materialism, secularism, and pluralism ... Nominalism and its handmaiden relativism are as...outright denial--and maybe more so." Nominalism? I thought I'd better look the word...
|
|
Between Realism and Nominalism: Learning to Think About Names and Words.(Statistical Data Included)
Magazine article from: Genetic, Social, and General Psychology Monographs; 2/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...questioned by nominalist philosophers. Nominalism denied the real being of universals...thing named by it. The opponent of nominalism in the Middle Ages was realism, which...being. Although many options between nominalism and realism were put forward in this...
|
|
Psychological Nominalism and the Plausibility of Sellars's Myth of Jones
Magazine article from: The Southern Journal of Philosophy; 10/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...is his endorsement of psychological nominalism, a view that implies that awareness...that fail to respect his psychological nominalism. This evinces, as well as reinforces...while still respecting his psychological nominalism, by seeing how Jones's thought is...
|
|
Jaffa, nominalism, and the fate of the common noun.(Harty Jaffa)
Magazine article from: Perspectives on Political Science; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...long as there is a dispute between nominalism and realism ... a man as he gradually...vulnerable to the central claim of nominalism. The primary purpose of this study is to repel the assault of nominalism by finding support for Jaffa in an...
|
|
Moderate nominalism and moderate realism.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 11/1/2008; 523 words
; 9789173466189 Moderate nominalism and moderate realism. Svennerlind...abstract" separated moderate nominalism and moderate realism substantially...ontology which is a mixture of moderate nominalism concerning qualities and realism...
|
|
The essentialist nominalism of John Burdian.
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 6/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...PHILOSOPHERS, the phrase "essentialist nominalism" may appear to be an oxymoron. After...nature or essence they share; while nominalism is precisely the denial of the existence...not a realist essentialist, since his nominalism consists in the denial of there being...
|
|
Nominalism and Literary Discourse: New Perspectives.(Review)
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 9/22/1998; 516 words
; Nominalism and Literary Discourse: New Perspectives, ed. Hugo Keiper, Christoph...Chaucer's clerks and the value of philosophy'; Stephen Penn, `Literary nominalism and medieval sign theory: problems and perspectives'; William F. Munson...
|
|
|
Moreland, J. P. Universals.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 12/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...announcing that this introduction to the nominalism-realism dialectic is pitched at...Aristotle. Six versions of extreme nominalism are distinguished: views which all...properties; and two versions of moderate nominalism, views which admit properties, either...
|
|
Bereft of Reason: On the Decline of Social Thought and Prospects for Its Renewal. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: CLIO; 6/22/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...pervasive philosophical and cultural "nominalism" of the contemporary milieu. According to Halton, "nominalism holds that things are real, thoughts...subjective or artificial" (67). Nominalism accepts as axiomatic the "dichotomy...
|
|
PLATONISM AND ANTI-PLATONISM IN MATHEMATICS.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Philosophical Review; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...platonists" like Carnap, whose anti-nominalism consists in rejection of the notion...the spirit, if not the letter, of nominalism. So much for the book's ultimate...on the optimal formulation of anti-nominalism. This is arrived at not by comparative...
|
|
nominalism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
nominalism in philosophy, a theory of the relation between universals and particulars. Nominalism gained its name in the Middle Ages, when...existence independent of particular tables? Nominalism says that it does not, that it is just...
|
|
Nominalism
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Nominalism. The theory of language which emphasizes...the 11th and 12th cents., a form of Nominalism was evolved by Roscelin and P. Abelard...establishing knowledge. A different form of Nominalism appeared in the 14th cent.; it is...
|
|
Nominalism and realism
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
Nominalism and realism. A philosophical debate...truly real, individuals or universals? Nominalism argued that individuals are real (this...items illustrating it. Theological nominalism (see e.g. WILLIAM OF OCKHAM ) held...
|
|
nominalism, philosophical
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology
nominalism, philosophical See REALISM ; TARDE , GABRIEL.
|
|
Willard Van Orman Quine
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Ontic Theory Two articles, "Steps toward a Constructive Nominalism" (1947) and "On What There Is" (1948), represent Quine...and Object (1960), however, Quine abandoned his earlier nominalism by acknowledging the existence of abstract entities. He contended...
|
