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  **_Nominalism_** — as used in the channel's captured material, a philosophical
  position that surfaces in the Reid Hoffman discussion, where modern language
  models are connected to classic debates about truth and language.
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# \_Nominalism\_

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## Definition

**_Nominalism_** — as used in the channel's captured material, a philosophical position that surfaces in the Reid Hoffman discussion, where modern language models are connected to classic debates about truth and language. [^01a0f15b-10b2-7018-b507-47b28e65ee45@281] [^01a0f15b-10b2-7018-b507-47b28e65ee45@2692]

In the captured material, **_Nominalism_** appears as one of the deep philosophical questions the Reid Hoffman episode connects to modern AI. The discussion frames language models as touching on longstanding debates about truth and language — exactly the territory where nominalism lives, since it concerns how words and general categories relate to the world. [^01a0f15b-10b2-7018-b507-47b28e65ee45@281] [^01a0f15b-10b2-7018-b507-47b28e65ee45@2692]- The episode's handout groups nominalism's home turf — **truth and language** — with other philosophy topics the conversation explores through AI. [^01a0f15b-10b2-7018-b507-47b28e65ee45@281] [^01a0f15b-10b2-7018-b507-47b28e65ee45@2090] [^01a0f15b-10b2-7018-b507-47b28e65ee45@3086]- _Nominalism_ is introduced through the episode's link between language models and classic debates about truth and language. [^01a0f15b-10b2-7018-b507-47b28e65ee45@281] [^01a0f15b-10b2-7018-b507-47b28e65ee45@2692]