Nominalism

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"Circular objects exist, says nominalism, and that is the only physical/metaphysical claim we are warranted to make: extrapolating another category of being is metaphysical permiscous if there is a monist alternative, and Nominalism is that alternative." Right there is Occam's Razor. Permiscous/ parsimonious. Baroque Monarchy/Spartan Meritocracy, per Daniel Harbour.

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"A person's commitment to the widest categories of being is that person's ontology." Ontological monism, ontological dualism, ontological.... For any ontological dualism (et al) comes the question of What is the relationship between the members, especially which is primary and which derivative.

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Nominalism as a metaphysics and Nominalism as a linguistic 'strategy' of understanding universals, concepts, words.

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My interest in Nominalism comes from the book Life Is Simple: How Occam's Razor set science free and shapes the universe.

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I'm wondering what Nominalism has to say about the question What is truth?

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So what is/are the correlatives of Nominalism? I guess [epistemic] Realism, ie Platinism and ???. I suppose we are mostly nominalist by culture osmosis. That wasn't always the case. I presume Nominalism to be a part of the view held by General Semantics.