Sentences with phrase «medieval nominalism»

Such existentialism in many ways resuscitates medieval nominalism.

Chapter 2, on the «Roots of the Crisis,» surveys Western history and draws unwarranted conclusions concerning the relationship between metaphysical realism and the late medieval nominalism of William of Ockham.

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That may mean rejecting the medieval world» the «Dark Ages»» or embracing the medieval world as if that were our most recent Eden, nominalism poisoned our intellectual life, whether one takes himself to be of the left or right, insofar as one justifies order merely in terms of history or these mechanisms collectively referred to as «nature.»

The medieval metaphysical dispute between nominalism, conceptualism, and platonism needs to be resolved conjunctively: we require a nominalism for particulars, a conceptualism for concepts, and a platonism for abstractions.

Professional philosophers consider him the chief exponent of «nominalism,» a powerful late - medieval philosophical movement which denied that universal concepts and principles exist in reality» they exist only in our minds.