An argument for this position, which is opposed by Duns Scotus's Platonic realism, was later abstracted as its namesake's "razor."
A modern form of this position was first advanced by D.C. Williams, inspiring Australian philosophers like Keith Campbell and D.M. Armstrong. That version of this position is based on the resemblance of "tropes." A version of this position with respect to relations is the target of F.H. Bradley's "regress" argument. Inspired by Stanislaw Lesniewski's rejection of set theory, Nelson Goodman and W.V.O. Quine reconstructed mathematics, despite holding this view, in a paper titled "Steps toward a (*) Constructive [it]." This view led to the tritheism of Roscellinus, its first major proponent; other major proponents included John Buridan. An argument for this position, which is opposed by Duns Scotus's Platonic realism, was later abstracted as its namesake's "razor." For 10 points, name this philosophical view championed by William of Ockham, which denies the existence of universals.
A modern form of this position was first advanced by D.C. Williams, inspiring Australian philosophers like Keith Campbell and D.M. Armstrong.
nominalism [accept trope theory before mentioned] 