Sentences with phrase «on nominalism»

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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.

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

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

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.

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