Sentences with phrase «nominalism in»

Might the influence of nominalism in the subsequent century be relevant?

The present Humanism, whether we call it scientific or existentialist, is only the natural and nal culmination of those principles of autonomy and nominalism in philosophy, which oversowed the New Learning.

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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.

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.»

Such existentialism in many ways resuscitates medieval nominalism.

It is fashionable at present, among some theologians, to attempt precise genealogies of modernity, which in general I would rather avoid doing; but it does seem clear to me that the special preoccupations and perversities of modern philosophy were incubated in the age of late Scholasticism, with the rise of nominalism and voluntarism.

What Rorty favors in pragmatism is its nominalism and its historicism.

Hume's insight had roots in the fourteenth - century revolt of nominalism against those Scholastics whose descendants inhabit my «Traditional» category.

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.

The very intellectual weakness of keeping science at arm's length invites the dominant dualistic mindset to interpret scientific as well as other observational data in a reductive manner, which leads to nominalism.

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.

Among the many references, I suggest the following: SDE 137 - 82 (see, e.g., 141); Man's Vision of God (Chicago: Willett, Clark & Company, 1941), p. 225, pp. 244 - 47, and p. 315; «Chance, Love, and Incompatibility,» in RSP 85 - 109 (see especially 94 and 98f; also see [in a later chapter] 118); TDG 193 «Abstraction: The Question of Nominalism,» chapter IV of CSPM 57 - 68 (see especially 61 - 64; also see [in an earlier chapter] 22f and [in a later] 122).

In Ockham's nominalism the value of human abstractions is relativised and truth is found only in God's revelation, which can be understood, nonetheless, according to logical and grammatical lawIn Ockham's nominalism the value of human abstractions is relativised and truth is found only in God's revelation, which can be understood, nonetheless, according to logical and grammatical lawin God's revelation, which can be understood, nonetheless, according to logical and grammatical laws.

Kathleen Sweeney historically roots the problem in the philosophy of nominalism and links it with the heart issue of the place of Christ in creation.

A third heresy that often appears in the electronic - church message is nominalism («Speak the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved») which fits nicely into the electronic church «s emphasis that the individual need merely «name the name» or «accept the Lord Jesus Christ» to be saved.

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.

In philosophy this would be called Nominalism: the denial of mutual inter-definition both to be at all, and to be fulfilled rightly and beautifully, and in true order, in one's beinIn philosophy this would be called Nominalism: the denial of mutual inter-definition both to be at all, and to be fulfilled rightly and beautifully, and in true order, in one's beinin true order, in one's beinin one's being.

This disturbed processing, embedded as it became in the dialectical method of inquiry (thesis, antithesis, synthesis), generated polarized and competing forces: rival powers (such as popes versus emperors), competing orders (such as the simple Franciscans versus the sophisticated Dominicans), competing pieties (such as natural realism versus Gothic symbolism), and competing inquiries (such as nominalism's empiricism versus realism's idealism) The dialectic between spirit and matter was pressed beyond its limits, resulting in both collapse and rigidification.

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.

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.

Often presented as a crucial moment in the history of epistemology, nominalism also had a tremendous influence on moral theology.

Again and again he sees the same underlying issue, which he poses in terms of a long - standing philosophers» controversy between «realism» and «nominalism.»

(PiP I, p. 22) Moreover because the individual known is part of and in relation to a unified cosmos, the dangers of nominalism are obviated.