This paper elucidates a range of the potentials and limitations of nominalist sensibilities in social theory through an examination of their presence in Durkheim and Weber. Nominalism, which emerged in early modern western thought, holds that only individual particular cases exist and that there are no universals or generalities beyond mentally or linguistically constructed concepts; it also introduced new conceptions of will and voluntarism. Nominalism was variously transposed into classical social theories including those of Durkheim and Weber. In our theoretical methodology, we assess tensions between nominalist and realist visualities and modes of reasoning in their works. We conclude by discussing assessments of nominalism, attending to its enduring critical contributions while also explicating a reflexive critique of nominalism as mimetic of chaotic and pathological forms of social organisation.

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唯名论的视觉和古典社会理论：涂尔干和韦伯的考察

本文通过考察涂尔干和韦伯对唯名论敏感性的存在，阐明了社会理论中唯名论敏感性的一系列潜力和局限性。唯名论出现在近代早期的西方思想中，认为只有个别的特殊情况存在，除了心理或语言构建的概念之外，没有普遍性或普遍性。它还引入了意志和自愿主义的新概念。唯名论被不同程度地转化为古典社会理论，包括涂尔干和韦伯的理论。在我们的理论方法中，我们评估了唯名论和现实主义的视觉以及他们作品中的推理模式之间的紧张关系。我们最后讨论唯名论的评估，