June 2017; forthcoming in Erkenntnis DOI: 10.1007/s10670-017-9914-2 Nominalism and Comparative Similarity Byeong-uk Yi Department of Philosophy University of Toronto b.yi@utoronto.ca Abstract: Nominalism about attributes has serious difficulties in accounting for truths involving abstract nouns. Prominent among such truths are statements of comparative similarity among attributes (e.g., ‘Carmine resembles vermillion more than it resembles French blue’). This paper argues that one cannot account for the truth of such statements without invoking attributes. Keywords: nominalism, resemblance, universals, attribute, abstract noun, comparative similarity, truthmaker, David Lewis, Rodriguez-Pereyra 1