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Trend in the medieval philosophy of
scholasticism. In opposition to the Realists,
who maintained that universals have a real
existence, the Nominalists taught that they
are mere names invented to describe the
qualities of real things; that is, classes of
things have no independent reality. William
of Occam was a leading medieval exponent of
nominalism. Dispute over on the issue
continued at intervals from the 11th to the
15th centuries.