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nominalism
In philosophy, usually as opposed to realism, the view that the names of abstract ideas (e.g., beauty) used in describing things (as in, a beautiful lake) are merely conventions or conveniences, and should not be taken to imply the actual existence of ,universals corresponding to those names.
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