nominalism

English Thesaurus

1. (philosophy) the doctrine that the various objects labeled by the same term have nothing in common but their name (noun.cognition)

hypernym	:	philosophical doctrine, philosophical theory,
definition	:	a doctrine accepted by adherents to a philosophy (noun.cognition)

domain category	:	philosophy,
definition	:	the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics (noun.cognition)

derivation	:	nominalistic,
definition	:	of or relating to nominalism (adj.pert)

derivation	:	nominalistic,
definition	:	of or relating to nominalism (adj.pert)