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| | Nominalism, Realism, Conceptualism |
 | | Concerning Nominalism, Conceptualism, and Exaggerated Realism, a few general considerations must suffice. | | | Futhermore there is little evidence of Sensism in the Middle Ages, and, as Sensism and Scholasticism, so also Nominalism and Scholasticism are mutually exclusive. | | | We find an unequivocal affirmation of Nominalism in Positivism. |
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http://catholicity.com/encyclopedia/r/realism,conceptualism,nominalism.html
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| | Cathy Legg -- Predication and the Problem of Realism |
| | Armstrong claims that Resemblance Nominalism is "by far the most satisfactory version of Nominalism". | | | Concept Nominalism, Class Nominalism, Mereological Nominalism, Resemblance Nominalism, and (last and very much least in Armstrong’s mind) Ostrich or Cloak and Dagger Nominalism. | | | According to Predicate Nominalism, an object's possession of (say) the property, being white, is completely determined by the fact that the predicate 'white' applies to this object. |
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http://members.door.net/arisbe/menu/library/aboutcsp/legg/realism.htm
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| | The Summulae of John Buridan |
| | In that case they either appellate the ultimate significata of their nominative forms (i.e., the entities which would be their personal supposita of their nominative form if they were the subject or predicate of a proposition), or the immediate significata of their nominative forms, i.e., the concepts to which their nominative forms are subordinated. | | | The nominal phrase in question in Buridan’s Latin is an accusative with infinitive construction. | | | In any case, whichever nominal form we use, the semantic function assigned to it by Buridan is clear: as a common term, it primarily has the function of referring materially to individual tokens of the corresponding proposition. |
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| | nominalism -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust! |
| | Such stricter forms of nominalism as existed in the Middle Ages can perhaps be viewed as reactions against Platonic realism, on which some enthusiasts, such as Guillaume de Champeaux, based the opinion that universals had real being. | | | The realist position invited a defensive alliance between empiricism and nominalism; the most notable medieval example of such a synthesis was the work of William of Ockham. | | | French philosopher and theologian known as the originator of an extreme form of nominalism holding that universals are nothing more than verbal expressions. |
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http://www.britannica.com/ebc/article-9056057
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| | Anti-Lookism is not extreme |
| | In terms of Matt's discussion of nominalism, man (the "whole" in relation to which individual men are the parts, and which modern liberalism denies) is the universal or the category the objective reality of which nominalism denies. | | | I understand nominalism to be the denial that universals (or categories) have an independent existence. | | | Another is that nominalism takes the authority of truth and transfers it to the human will. |
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| | Different versions of nominalism are considered and criticized, together with the view that properties and relations are particulars, not universals. | | | In Part I, I argue that ostrich nominalism is the most satisfactory position of these four, and that the realist view favored by Armstrong and many others is prone to the same fundamental difficulty as the other two varieties of nominalism. | | | Abailardians resemble fregeans but differ in their interpretation of subject position quantifiers insofar as nominalized predicates do not refer at all as singular terms; and nominalists, who interpret predicate quantifiers substitutionally, resemble abailardians but with an additional restriction regarding quantification into predicate positions. |
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http://fas-philosophy.rutgers.edu/~sider/teaching/abstract_entities_bib.htm
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| | Desert Landscapes » Blog Archive » Trope Monism |
| | This is known as “resemblance nominalism,” but as you suggest, it has the distinctive disadvantage of not really being nominalism. | | | Trope Nominalism is the view that properties can be analyzed in terms of tropes: properties are sets, or sums, of (exactly similar) tropes. | | | This is a version of Russell’s argument against standard nominalism, sometimes known as Russell’s regress. |
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http://www.arizonaphilosophy.com/?p=127
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| | Matthew Mullins: Best Argument for Nominalism |
| | In that case he is not advocating nominalism as much as he is criticising the independence of abstract entities apart from God. | | | Surely this is a better argument for nominalism than any based on a hankering for ontological penury or a taste for desert landscapes. | | | The theistic argument for nominalism is at any rate based on more than personal preference." (Plantinga, Alvin. |
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http://matthew.ektopos.com/archives/2006/02/best_argument_f.html
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| | Logic, Ontology, and Ockham's Christology |
| | Given this background, we are in a position to see that nominalism is not the source of Ockham's difficulties with the term 'man'. | | | It follows that the disjunctive formula under discussion is the nominal definition of the term 'man' only if it is impossible that someone should grasp both of them without believing them to apply to all and only the same things. | | | Ockham's nominalism consists in his rejection of common natures or forms such as those posited by Aquinas and Scotus. |
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| | NOMINALISM, Term Papers 2000, Term papers, 060417 |
| | Examines policy vs. precedent conflict, politics and ideology in the nomination process, legal formalism, "stare decisis", including a case study of Justice Antonin Scalia as a eloquent dissenter. | | | The paper shows that as the first woman justice, her background and nomination are extremely important. | | | Whatever may have actually been the case at various times in the past, it is difficult to resist a policy-preference view of the contemporary Court. |
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http://www.termpapers2000.com/lib/essay?A=type1&KEYW=Nominalism
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| | First, there is strict Nominalism or pure Nominalism, or "Predicate Nominalism," according to which only particulars exist, universals are merely a flatus vocis, or just a general name applied to distinct individuals. | | | Alternatively, another form of Nominalism is called "Resemblance Nominalism," according to which the groupings we make of particulars are not real, but are based on something other than the way we talk about the world. | | | The word "Nominalism" comes from the Latin word nomen which means "name." According to Nominalism, universals are nothing more than names, or words we use to group things together. |
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http://www.philosophy.ccsu.edu/adams/Classes/Medieval/Universals.html
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| | Jonathan's Corner: The Watch |
| | Janra: Bear with me. Nominalism may be seen as the lock on a prison: we need to pay close attention to the lock to see if there's any way to open it. | | | Now I have been showing what happens when you push nominalism a good deal further than non-scholars are likely to do. | | | In a sentence, nominalism says, "There's nothing out there; it's all in your head." A nominalist doesn't literally mean "nothing" is outside our heads; you can't put on a watch and say, "I refute nominalism thus." |
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http://jonathanscorner.com/writings/watch/watch2.html
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| | Ed Brandon - Nominalism PH3903 |
| | Loux then suggests that the fundamental motivation for nominalism is a matter of explanatory adequacy and the general demand (associated with the great mediaeval nominalist, William of Ockham) not to postulate more entities than you need. | | | As Mackie says, "it is easy to show that the commonest sorts of sentence which superficially appear to be about, say, justice are only transformations of sentences about just decisions and the like, and when these nominalizing transformations are reversed the appearance of talk about an entity, justice, disappears" (p. | | | Regresses: We have already seen Loux's responses to the various regress objections. |
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| | (( prolepsis >> |
| | Utz's essay would then be the mirror image of Courtenay's: whereas Courtenay finds that literary nominalism fulfills the promise of philosophical nominalism, Utz argues that philosophical nominalism fulfills the promise of literature. | | | Susanne Fendler's essay reintroduces the notion that literature may be a successful form of nominalism. | | | (17-20) He also provides us with a definition of literature as the interplay of numerous modes of encoding; the encoding of "nominalism" in Milne and Tolkein then might be understood as "literary nominalism" (15). |
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http://www.as.uni-hd.de/prolepsis/99_1_met.html
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| | Realism, Nominalism, and Conceptualism |
| | Abelard's conceptualism as escaping the dilemma between realism and nominalism | | | Notice, however, that this abstract concept requires that Abelard expand nominalism both in terms of | | | Abelard begins by accepting the ontological claim made in nominalism -- that no universal entities exist (and thus he avoids a central problem in realism -- i.e., how would such universal entities exist "in" particular things?) |
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http://www.drury.edu/ess/history/modern/nominalism.html
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| | Universals [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | Remember that Resemblance Nominalism was vulnerable because it explained qualitative identity of individuals by reference to sets of resembling individuals. | | | Trope Nominalism is committed a new kind of entity, tropes. | | | Importantly, because this is a version of Nominalism, we don’t say the tropes resemble each other because they share a universal. |
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http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/u/universa.htm
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| | NOMINALISM - LoveToKnow Article on NOMINALISM |
| | Though nominalism is properly a medieval theory, the tendency has passed over into modern philosophy: the term " nominalist " is often applied to thinkers of the empirical, sensationalist school, of whom J. Mill may be taken as the chief representative. | | | (H. To properly cite this NOMINALISM article in your work, copy the complete reference below: | | | Under an appearance of much vain subtlety the controversy about universals involved issues of the greatest speculative and practical importance: realism represented a spiritual, nominalism an anti-spiritual, view of the world; while realism was evidently favorable, and nominalism unfavourable, to the teaching of the Church on the dogmas of the Trinity and the Eucharist. |
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http://33.1911encyclopedia.org/N/NO/NOMINALISM.htm
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| | nominalism - OneLook Dictionary Search |
| | nominalism : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info] | | | nominalism : Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info] | | | nominalism : Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names [home, info] |
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http://www.onelook.com/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/bware/dofind.cgi?word=nominalism
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| | Quodlibet Online Journal: Jacques Derrida's Differance: Nominalism redivivus? |
| | Occam's nominalism as impacts epistemology and metaphysics will then be examined as a response to this tradition. | | | For Occam, nominal terms representing objects are indeed artificial signs imposed by men through convention. | | | Occam's own legacy has come to be known as Nominalism. |
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http://www.quodlibet.net/occam.shtml
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| | Steps Toward a Constructive Nominalism |
| | We might, equally consistently with nominalism, construe marks phenomenally, as events in the visual (or in the auditory or tactual) field. | | | Certain statements that even involve explicit quantification over classes are replaceable by equivalent statements that conform to the tenets of nominalism. | | | This combination of principles is as untenable from the point of view of a platonistic syntax of shape-classes as from the point of view of nominalism. |
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| | THE FAILURE OF OCKHAM'S NOMINALISM <1> |
| | The failure of Ockham's nominalism points the way towards a more robust nominalism, one that can learn from and avoid Ockham's mistakes. | | | The latter part of the objection is obscure, but I take it the complaint that 'nothing would be a genus or species of its nature' is meant to reject a purely conventional nominalism. | | | Ultimately, I believe, his attempt fails, though not for any lack of ingenuity, and his failure is itself instructive about the possible forms and limits of nominalism. |
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| | Peirce, Frazer's Berkeley 2003 notes |
| | His whole philosophy rests upon an extreme nominalism of a sensationalistic type. | | | separated from nominalism only by the division of a hair". | | | From Peirce's point of view it is Berkeley's nominalism that is the most significant thing about his thought, rather than the metaphysical position that he is remembered for. |
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| | AllRefer.com - nominalism (Philosophy, Terms And Concepts) - Encyclopedia |
| | AllRefer.com - nominalism (Philosophy, Terms And Concepts) - Encyclopedia | | | You are here : AllRefer.com > Reference > Encyclopedia > Philosophy, Terms And Concepts > nominalism | | | nominalism, in philosophy, a theory of the relation between universals and particulars. |
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| | ABSOLUTES, RELATIONS; REALISM, NOMINALISM |
| | realism versus nominalism (the central argument of medieval scholastics), and essentialism versus methodological nominalism. | | | Methodological nominalism stands in opposition to this view. | | | This nominalism, however, involves a number of difficulties, not the least of which is the essentialism of its own central ideas (science is... |
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| | Lecture 1: Nominalism and the Basic Tents of The Reformation | | | discuss the impact of nominalism upon ethics and theology | | | Objectives : The purpose of this lecture is to: |
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http://www.samford.edu/schools/artsci/history/faculty/wpcollin/CoreB1_two.htm
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| | Philosophical Dictionary: Nicole-Nussbaum |
| | nomine} is applied to individuals that resemble each other, without the need of any reference to an independently existing universal. | | | Nominalists hold that a general term or name {Lat. | | | Nominalism and Contemporary Nominalism: Ontological and Epistemological Implications of the Work of W.V.O. Quine and of N. Goodman |
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| | Peirce - Philosophy: Nominalism |
| | It was whether laws and general types are figments of the mind or are real. | | | In short, there was a tidal wave of nominalism. | | | In the days of which I am speaking, the age of Robert of Lincoln, Roger Bacon, St. Thomas Aquinas, and Duns Scotus, the question of nominalism and realism was regarded as definitively and conclusively settled in favor of realism. |
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| | Nominalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | There are various forms of nominalism ranging from extreme to almost-realist. | | | Armstrong, perhaps the most prominent contemporary realist, argues that such a trope-based variant of nominalism has promise, but holds that it is unable to account for the laws of nature in the way his theory of universals can. | | | This generates an infinite regress, but many agree that it is not vicious. |
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| | nominalism from FOLDOC |
| | by Paul Vincent Spade (Hackett, 1994); Mia Gosselin, Nominalism and Contemporary Nominalism: Ontological and Epistemological Implications of the Work of W.V.O. Quine and of N. Goodman (Kluwer, 1990); and Nominalism, Constructivism, and Relativism in the Work of Nelson Goodman, ed. | | | Nearby terms: Noddings Nel « node « noesis « nominalism » nominalist » non-algorithmic procedure » noncognitivism | | | Recommended Reading: The Nature of Properties: Nominalism, Realism, and Trope Theory, ed. |
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| | Nominalism |
| | The church was therefore irreconcilably opposed to nominalism. | | | The defense of nominalism undertaken by the 14th-century English Scholastic philosopher William of Ockham prepared the way for various modern nominalistic theories such as those of instrumentalism, pragmatism, semantics, and logical positivism. | | | Nominalism (Latin nominalis,"of or pertaining to names"), in medieval Scholastic philosophy, doctrine stating that abstractions, known as universals, are without essential or substantive reality, and that only individual objects have real existence. |
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| | Can the Nominalist Explain Metaphor? |
| | The second he calls 'conventional nominalism' according to which rules of association are determined by the practices of language users. | | | Consequently, Goodman is forced to adopt stipulative nominalism. | | | Thus, he is confronted with a dilemma: if he retains his account of metaphor, he must adopt stipulative nominalism and, consequently, he must abandon conventionalism; if he retains his conventionalism, he must abandon his views on metaphorical truth. |
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| | Nominalism |
| | "It was the way in which nominalism obscures the importance of the interactions between organic beings, more than the issue of whether the uses of words (regarded as instruments) reveal universal characters in things, which formed the basis of Dewey's criticism of nominalism. | | | General semantics is a theory about meaning which has been characterized as radical nominalism (Nordberg, 1977). | | | Nominalism is a philosophical position that regards the world as consisting of single things and knowledge and concepts as knowledge about single objects. |
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| | Philosophical Critiques: The Problem With Nominalism |
| | And this is why ideas are thus universal, and nominalism is false. | | | Nominalism must be rejected, because it maintains that names and words can have a universal significance without deriving this significance from the only source from which it can be derived, namely, from the universal ideas of which they are the signs. | | | If nominalism were correct, we should have no universal names, since we have no universal ideas. |
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| | Let's face reality, please. - Reader comments at DanielPipes.org |
| | This is nominalism and it undermines all conceptual knowledge. | | | For the religion to have an identity there has to be an essence — some enduring core of beliefs and practices. | | | Does the meaning of democracy change because over one billion communists used to refer to themselves as Democratic People's Republics? |
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| | Philosophy: Nominalism, universals, Funes, and woodiness - Opinion |
| | In philoso-speak what we're talking about here is the debate between realism and nominalism. | | | Philosophy: Nominalism, universals, Funes, and woodiness - Opinion | | | Nominalism postulates that universals are only categories we invented to classify things for practical purposes. |
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http://www.isubengal.com/news/2003/11/19/Opinion/Philosophy.Nominalism.Universals.Funes.And.Woodiness-561599.shtml
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| | Furr, " Nominalism in the Nun's Priest's Tale: A Preliminary Study |
| | Although a prima facie case for suspecting the influence of nominalism in the NPT certainly exists, there has been little scholarship on this subject. | | | In his book on the influence of nominalism upon Troylus and Criseyde Richard Utz makes some very suggestive remarks about the NPT but does not subject it to a special study. | | | The Nun's Priest's Tale and Nominalism: A Preliminary Study |
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| | Xunzi (Hsün Tzu) [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | It would be a mistake to think of Xunzi’s view as a kind of nominalism, however, since he is very clear that there is an objective reality that names refer to. | | | He defended a modified conventionalism concerning language: names were not intrinsically appropriate for the objects they referred to, but once usage was determined by convention, to depart from it is wrong. | | | The particular phonemes used to make the word "cat" in language are conventionally determined, but the fact that a cat is a kind of feline is real. |
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| | Nominalism : eCorporations |
| | Home > Catholic Encyclopedia > N > Nominalism, Realism, Conceptualism. | | | Nominalism gained its name in the Middle Ages, when it was contrasted with realism. | | | Features 300 W (RMS)/600 W (pink noise), nominal impedance: 4 Ohms Extremely high sound pressure le |
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| | Encyclopedia Barfieldiana: Nominalism |
| | Nominalism is a philosophical position which argues that abstract or general terms--"universals"--"are not real entities either in the world or in the mind, but names which refer to groups or classes of individual things" (DPR). | | | Thus nominalism represents but the latest, penultimate phase in a centuries long process: | | | Just as he made Mohammedanism out of the Jewish sacred traditions, he made Nominalism out of Greek philosophy. |
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| | Nominalism |
| | Deflating Existential Consequence: A Case for Nominalism by Jody Azzouni (Oxford University Press) If we must take mathematical statements to be true, must we also believe in the existence of abstracter--eternal invisible mathematical objects accessible only by the power of pure thought? | | | Jody Azzouni says no, and he claims that the way to escape such commitments is to accept (as an essential part of scientific doctrine) true statements which are "about" objects that don't exist in any sense at all. | | | By contrast, my nominalism steals the best from both sides in this debate: I take true mathematical statements as literally true; I forgo at-tempts to show that such literally true mathematical statements are not indispensable to empirical science, and yet, nonetheless, I can describe mathematical terms as referring to nothing at all. |
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| | Tigger Nominalism |
| | Contrary to the prevailing view that it is dogs who are the paradigm nominalists, it turns out that an important form of nominalism has the committed support of Tiggers, a type (so to speak) of cat. | | | Having identified this starting point, Taniqua then goes on to defend an answer to the Tigger Question according to which Tiggers are moderate nominalists (nominalism is the only thing that Tiggers like in moderation). | | | A review of Marion Taniqua's Tigger Nominalism: An Historical Approach to Animal Metaphysics (forthcoming OUP 1998) |
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| | Yalda Mahmoudi: Nominalism versus Conceptualism |
| | Before exploring what nominalism and conceptualism is, it is better to explain what universals and particulars are. | | | That is to say, we would accept the fact that there can be no complete mechanical account of how we come to have such a conception of the real. | | | A universal is an entity that is possible such that it has two or more instances. |
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| | Comments on Peter King: “THE FAILURE OF OCKHAM'S NOMINALISM” |
| | But Ockham also claims that absolute terms signify or represent their objects absolutely, that is, not in respect of something, indeed, not even in respect of something not really distinct from themselves. | | | As we could see, talking about similarity in certain respects need not pose an immediate threat to Ockham’s nominalism, as it need not necessarily involve commitment to "abstract entities", that is, extramental universals. | | | Let me begin my comments on Peter King’s paper by declaring that I thoroughly agree with its main claims, namely, that Ockham’s nominalism fails in some important respect, and that we can learn a great deal from understanding exactly what this failure consists in. |
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