Sentences with phrase «by nominalism»

Further, the practice of appreciative perception is likely to show us that appreciation and discernment of worth need not be limited by a nominalism which gives moral consideration only to individuals, unusual as the idea may seem.

Thus the dislocation of sign from reality by nominalism makes ready the manipulations of gnostic intellect.

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What nominalism called in question is the universal, those principles and causes larger than the mechanism of nature or ideas generated out of nature seen as mechanistic by man.

Even such a brilliant and subtle study as The Theological Origins of Modernity, by Michael Gillespie, simply assumes that nominalism attained victory over the older tradition because of an intrinsic superiority.

Nominalism was encouraged by the Reformation and boosted by the New Science's challenge to scholastic «natures».

This makes sense of Hartshorne's contention in his chapter «Abstraction the Question of Nominalism,» that the novel forms emergent in a creative event are not determinate before the event but become determinate by decision in the event; to deny this is to deny any real meaning to creativity.

More important to Collection was the «pictorial nominalism» signaled by Tu m's trompe l'œil succession of color samples.