Definition of "nominalists" [nominalists]

• Plural form of nominalist. (noun)

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• "The challenge to nominalists is to provide an explanation for facts of a certain kind, namely, predicative facts described by sentences of the form ˜a is"
• "For since paraphrase nominalists don't believe in the existence of mathematical objects, if they admit that ordinary utterances of ˜3 is prime™ are best interpreted as being about mathematical objects, or purporting to be about such objects, then they will have to admit that such sentences are literally untrue, as fictionalists maintain."
• "But paraphrase nominalists cannot endorse this stance, for if they do, their view will collapse into a version of fictionalism."