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  1. Trend in the medieval philosophy of
  2. scholasticism. In opposition to the Realists,
  3. who maintained that universals have a real
  4. existence, the Nominalists taught that they
  5. are mere names invented to describe the
  6. qualities of real things; that is, classes of
  7. things have no independent reality. William
  8. of Occam was a leading medieval exponent of
  9. nominalism. Dispute over on the issue
  10. continued at intervals from the 11th to the
  11. 15th centuries.
  12.