Nocrates lives in the possible world where nominalism is true. From Wordnik.com. [An Argument from Realism Against Naturalism about Human Beings] Reference
If Nocrates lives in a possible world where nominalism is true what more needs to be explained?. From Wordnik.com. [An Argument from Realism Against Naturalism about Human Beings] Reference
If so, it would be classified as nominalism in ontology, and as conventionalism in logical theory. From Wordnik.com. [A Special Supplement: The Development of Wittgenstein's Philosophy] Reference
In the other, nominalism is true. From Wordnik.com. [An Argument from Realism Against Naturalism about Human Beings] Reference
Darn thing didn't pick up "nominalism"; I'll try for 100 MB of Essence next. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
Pipes may deserve his opprobrium, but he slays his own philosophical infidel, "nominalism", there. From Wordnik.com. [Does Islam make its adherents violent?] Reference
This approach would be consistent with the kind of nominalism that reduces properties to sets of their instances. From Wordnik.com. [States of Affairs] Reference
Many people try to understand Christians along a spectrum from "nominalism" at one end to. From Wordnik.com. [CNN.com] Reference
Even Christians are not free from "nominalism," as we have frequently found in our missionary work. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic] Reference
This prompts her to argue for resemblance nominalism. From Wordnik.com. [Feminist Perspectives on Sex and Gender] Reference
The second, concerns the nominalism-platonism debate. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation in Mathematics] Reference
Gness, and according to nominalism, there is no such thing as. From Wordnik.com. [Platonism in Metaphysics] Reference
For example, the proposal seems committed to rejecting nominalism. From Wordnik.com. [Rigid Designators] Reference
Science without Numbers: a defense of nominalism, Oxford: Blackwell. From Wordnik.com. [Philosophy of Mathematics] Reference
Related Entries identity theory of mind | nominalism: in metaphysics |. From Wordnik.com. [Types and Tokens] Reference
Such a position would tread a middle way between nominalism and idealism. From Wordnik.com. [The Philosophy of Music] Reference
Realism in this medieval sense is op - posed to nominalism and empiricism. From Wordnik.com. [IMPRESSIONISM IN ART] Reference
One of the tenets of nominalism was that only indi - vidual things are real. From Wordnik.com. [IDEA] Reference
It is not so clear, however, how nominalism can provide a uniform semantics. From Wordnik.com. [Indispensability Arguments in the Philosophy of Mathematics] Reference
But medieval nominalism involved much more than rejecting Platonic universals. From Wordnik.com. [John Buridan] Reference
Another step came with the rise of nominalism or terminism in the universities. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Anti-nominalism about mathematics is thus just the conjunction of Existence and. From Wordnik.com. [Platonism in the Philosophy of Mathematics] Reference
An all-pervading nominalism has completely masked whatsoever there is that is real. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864] Reference
In other words, the One Over Many argument fails to refute nominalism about properties. From Wordnik.com. [Platonism in Metaphysics] Reference
But when metaphysical realism gave way to metaphysical nominalism in the fourteenth century, the. From Wordnik.com. [STUDY OF LANGUAGE] Reference
They were also influenced by the nominalism which had become a feature of contemporary philoso. From Wordnik.com. [EVOLUTIONISM] Reference
Hobbes's nominalism was recognized by his contemporaries, but was also criticized as going too far. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Hobbes] Reference
Because anti-nominalism leaves out Independence, it is logically weaker than mathematical platonism. From Wordnik.com. [Platonism in the Philosophy of Mathematics] Reference
For this method of forming conceptions is the only one which nominalism can accept with a good conscience. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
The words republic and monarchy will make them laugh, as we on our part, laughed, at realism and nominalism. From Wordnik.com. [The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters] Reference
The first account of the meaning of the word is the reflection of thought in speech — a sort of nominalism. From Wordnik.com. [Theaetetus] Reference
Still other humanists were adherents (in their theology) of the medieval doctrines of realism and nominalism. From Wordnik.com. [HUMANISM IN ITALY] Reference
William of Ockham, notably, came up with a whole new philosophy, which is called the new theology, or nominalism. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Luther] Reference
(Even nominalism implies that at least one popular candidate for the office “ontological category” is non-existent or empty.). From Wordnik.com. [Metaphysics] Reference
His criticism of Hobbes's nominalism, and his early adoption of the view that reasoning is computation, were both discussed above. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Hobbes] Reference
A less radical variant of nominalism recognizes properties and relations, but as mere set-theoretic constructs out of individuals. From Wordnik.com. [Tropes] Reference
That is a philosophical conundrum and this is not quite the place to raise the problem it is the old realism-nominalism debate. From Wordnik.com. [The Perils of Cultural Absolutism] Reference
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