nominalism

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The principles or philosophy of the Nominalists.

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We have here a question of difficulty, analogous to the question of nominalism and realism. Charles Sanders Peirce

It is generally agreed that Spinoza fell into nominalism. But he did in any case take measures to protect himself from idealism, both in developing his theory of a substance with infinite attributes, and in arguing for the parallelism of the two attributes extension and thought. Baruch Spinoza

Aware that explicit thinking in terms of a divide between 'nominalism' and 'realism' only emerged in the fifteenth century, scholars have increasingly questioned whether a fourteenth-century school of nominalism can really be said to have existed. Source: Internet

If resemblances between individuals are asserted, conceptualism becomes moderate realism; if they are denied, it collapses into nominalism. Source: Internet

Berkeleyan nominalism contributed to the same thinker's critique of the possibility of matter. Source: Internet

He flirted with Nelson Goodman 's nominalism for a while, but backed away when he failed to find a nominalist grounding of mathematics. Source: Internet

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