Nominalism
Only individual things exist; general concepts are just names
Key ideas
- Universals are words and concepts, not real entities
- Ockham's razor: do not multiply entities beyond necessity
- Attention to experience and individual things
- Separating matters of faith from matters of reason
Key thinkers
- William of Ockham — English Franciscan philosopher, 1287–1347
Grew out of
- Scholasticism c. 1100 – 1700 · Europe
Meanwhile elsewhere
- Confucianism Asia
- Buddhist philosophy Asia
- Taoism Asia
- Nyaya Asia
- Madhyamaka Asia
- Yogachara Asia
- Chan and Zen Asia
- Advaita Vedanta Asia
- Kalam Middle East
- Falsafa Middle East
- Neo-Confucianism Asia