Lexicon of Arguments

 

I 118
Nominalism/Goodman: even though my system only speaks of individuals and excludes classes, it can perceive arbitrary things as an individual. The nominalistic prohibition is directed against the uncontrolled proliferation of entities on any selected individuals basis, but leaves the choice of the basis completely open. It thus allows alternative versions.
>Individuals, >Classes.
I 119
While the doctrine of physicalists: "no difference without physical difference" and the doctrine of the nominalists: "no difference without distinction of individuals", sound the same, they differ significantly.
(VsPhysicalism: physicalism only allows one basis which is not clear at all.)
>Physicalism.
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ad III 76
Nominalism/Goodman: nominalism places great importance on the etiquette: a nominalist order. Whatever reverence one may have before classes, classes are not moved from sphere to sphere, and attributes are certainly not abstracted from some objects and injected into another.
>Attributes.