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“The nominalist says that classifications are ours. They are not dictated by nature.”
“For a nominalist, the only things that exist are individuals.”
“Every universal is a particular thing, and is not a universal except in its signification, in its being a sign.”
“The only reality is the individual.”
“No universal is a substance existing outside the mind.”
“The universal is not a thing existing in reality outside the mind, but only an intention of the mind.”