nominalism
Definition 1
Legal concept that an obligation to pay a certain sum remains unchanged whether or not the currency in which it was to be paid appreciates or depreciates.
Definition 2
Philosophical concept that the non-concrete (abstract) entities such as numbers and other mathematical object, properties, and propositions, cannot have independent existence. And that all knowledge classification and other taxonomic schemes are arbitrary. Opposite of realism.
nominalism is in the Corporate, Commercial, & General Law and Information & Knowledge Management subjects.
nominalism appears in the definition of the following term: realism
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