In Nomine was a title given to a number of English pieces of music in the 16th and 17th centuries based on the plainsong "Gloria tibi Trinitas" and on a section of John Taverner's mass itself based on that theme. In Nomines were polyphonic pieces written variously for consorts of viols, the lute or keyboard instruments.
In philosophy, nominalism is the theory that abstract terms, general terms, or universals do not represent objectivereal existents, but are merely names, words, or vocal utterances (flatus vocis).
Nominalism, on the contrary, models the concept on the external object, which it holds to be individual and particular.
Nominalism consequently denies the existence of abstract and universal concepts, and refuses to admit that the intellect has the power of engendering them.
Nominalism, which is irreconcilable with a spiritualistic philosophy and for that very reason with scholasticism as well, presupposes the ideological theory that the abstract concept does not differ essentially from sensation, of which it is only a transformation.
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