My answer to the topic of this thread (as to the other that i going on :
http://www.paceadvantage.com/forum/s...d.php?t=140978) is that both are about pseudo questions that do not make sense. In other words they both can be considered analytical statements at best and "nonsense" under a more strict critique. The answer to questions of the type "what do you consider X to be" or "Who is go Y" lies in their definition meaning that they can be seen as a "name" encapsulating a set of properties without any empirical verification.
See here for more:
http://wikidiff.com/essentialism/nominalism
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/n...m-metaphysics/
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!to...HpoA%5B1-25%5D
