FTP, name this philosophic school which denied the realness of words as their very use did not imply the existence of the things named.
The beliefs behind the theory have been championed in the 20th century by Nelson Goodman and Willard Quine.  First put forward during the Middle Ages in response to the realism of Plato, proponents included Roscelin and Guillaume de Champeaux before it was synthesized with empiricism by William of Ockham.  FTP, name this philosophic school which denied the realness of words as their very use did not imply the existence of the things named.
The beliefs behind the theory have been championed in the 20th century by Nelson Goodman and Willard Quine.  
nominalism or nominalist theory