Sentences with phrase «from nominalism»

This is of course a far cry from nominalism, which Quine seems to have left behind years ago.

While the book gives an interesting summary of various authors who have argued that it was the Protestant Reformation that gave rise to atheism, the author fails to note any connection between the rejection (traceable from nominalism) of reason's capacity to know reality, the Protestant Reformation's appeal to faith against reason, intellectual scepticism and current postmodernism.

Part of that will include connecting them to a church so they can grow from nominalism to deeper faith.

Not exact matches

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

It is precisely in the introduction of formative elements as conditions of the possibility of actual entities, according to Collingwood, that Whitehead differs from Alexander.25 Furthermore, the status of one of these formative elements, the «eternal objects,» is analogous to that of the «abstract entities»: 26 both are situated between the realism of ideas and pure nominalism.

This is explained as the philosophical change from realism to nominalism, from a belief in universals as real to a belief in the fundamental reality of unrelated particulars.

They both also acknowledge that this was in the context of the rising challenge against the idea of «the nature of something» from the school of Nominalism.

That's different from what might be called Progressive nominalism; words are weapons to advance History, because particular people are nothing but Historical products and History fodder.

It's also different from what might be called Darwinian nominalism; words are weapons for the flourishing of the species because people, whether they know it or not, are basically species fodder.

It arose largely from the individualism of Protestant then Enlightenment thinking with its roots in the Nominalism of the late Middle Ages which denied any intrinsic connection, any common «natures», between entities.

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And it has everything to do, I suggest, with four themes that arise from the modern expression of Ockhamite nominalism: the deterioration of the idea of freedom into willfulness, the detachment of freedom from moral truth, an obsession with «choice,» and the consequent inability to draw the most elementary moral conclusions about the imperative to resist evil.

Thierry de Duve, Pictorial Nominalism: On Marcel Duchamp's Passage from Painting to the Readymade (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991).