Sentences with phrase «nominalism which»

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.

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However, this does not mean that we therefore espouse a nominalism, which would mean that possibility is a present projection on the future.

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.

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.

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.

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 laws.

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.

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

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.

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

Though he is especially known for his seminal books on Marcel Duchamp such as Pictorial Nominalism and Kant after Duchamp, this time around he set out to revisit the history of Modernist painting which Hilma af Klint is belatedly entering.