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If there are no univerals then reality becomes meaningless because there is no such thing as a "chair". What you call a chair is only a bunch of particles. If you say "Well the ideal of chairness is just a construct in our minds; that's all" this fails to explain how this mental construct has any correspondence to an object in the external world. Furthermore, if all objects that we call "chairs" are just arbitrary collections of particles that we decide to call chairs, this leads to the question of what commonality exists between these different chairs that leads us to call them chairs. Nominalism reaches a dead end here.
Change cannot be the fundamental substance of all reality. If it were, that too would change.