Nominalist

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Nominalist \Nom"i*nal*ist\, n. (Metaph.)
     One of a sect of philosophers in the Middle Ages, who adopted
     the opinion of Roscelin, that general conceptions, or
     universals, exist in name only. --Reid.
     [1913 Webster]