Goodman first endorses a nominalist position in his famous joint article with W.V. Quine, “Steps Toward a Constructive Nominalism” (1947). Goodman and Quine set the agenda in the very first sentence of the article: “We do not believe in abstract objects”. And they conclude the first paragraph: “Any system that countenances abstract entities we deem unsatisfactory as a final philosophy” (Goodman and Quine 1947, 105).