How To Use Nominalism In A Sentence
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Please note that whether Socrates or Nocrates (Sid or Nid) believe realism/nominalism is true is beside the point.
An Argument from Realism Against Naturalism about Human Beings
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In the language of nominalism, the terms ‘black’ and ‘white’ purport to have mutually exclusive intensions and should therefore have mutually exclusive extensions, which they do not.
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This is closely related to the epiphenominalism theory of mind that it is an evolutionary accident emerging from the increasing complexity of brains as an "epiphenomenon" or side effect of neural complexity.
Coordinated Evolution
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The nominalism of days past is now in a hostile, secular environment.
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Traditional, central, philosophical debates, such as those between realism and nominalism in regard to universals, are purportedly deflated by Wittgensteinian approaches.
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His unorthodox approach to art is part of a general approach to knowledge and reality, and is always pervasively informed by his cognitivism, nominalism, relativism, and constructivism.
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What it seems that we have done is to locate ourselves more decisively on one side of the continental divide of the old Christian world, between realism and nominalism.
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Nocrates lives in the possible world where nominalism is true.
An Argument from Realism Against Naturalism about Human Beings
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William was somewhat of a minimalist in philosophy, advocating nominalism against the more popular view of realism.
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If so, it would be classified as nominalism in ontology, and as conventionalism in logical theory.
A Special Supplement: The Development of Wittgenstein's Philosophy
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The kind of nominalism you're talking about is actually what many psychologists think is going on with some forms of affect: we seem have some kind of generalized sense of 'arousal' (their term, not mine) which we then transform into anger, romantic excitement, fear, and so on with post hoc explanatory narratives.
More Aesthetics
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The first part of the Barclays extreme nominalism The Ideological Origins of doing a bit rough reviewed.
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This seems like the worst kind of nominalism — to assert that the essential nature of human procreation is somehow affected by what intellectual constructs we believe.
The Volokh Conspiracy » DOJ Brief in Another DOMA Case:
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His approach is broadly nominalistic, but Buridan's nominalism is more of a parsimonious way of doing philosophy than a doctrine about universals.
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If Nocrates lives in a possible world where nominalism is true what more needs to be explained?
An Argument from Realism Against Naturalism about Human Beings
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It doesn't depend on whether they think realism/nominalism is true in the possible worlds in which they exist, but whether it actually is so.
An Argument from Realism Against Naturalism about Human Beings
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The medieval metaphysical dispute between nominalism, conceptualism, and platonism needs to be resolved conjunctively: all three are needed: a nominalism is required for concrete particulars, a conceptualism for particular-applicative concepts, and a platonism for abstractions (e.g., in prime mathematics).
Process Philosophy
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[10] This discussion was over what was known as nominalism vs. realism.
The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization
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Another step came with the rise of nominalism or terminism in the universities.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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The alternative between a theological and an independent theory of ethics is, he holds, the alternative between ethical nominalism and realism.
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Or, to paraphrase what he was saying: this isn't about realism or anti-realism, it isn't about nominalism, nihilism, modalism, nor pluralism; it isn't about being a subjectivist or an objectivist.
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Goodman and Quine (in his pre-naturalist phase) once began an article by declaring that the basis for their nominalism was a fundamental philosophical intuition irreducible to scientific grounds (1947).
Naturalism in the Philosophy of Mathematics
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Using biblical language and talking about restored Christianity and the Great Apostasy is not only meaningless in those two contexts, it is embarassingly parochial, like introducing the medieval controversy of nominalism versus accidentalism in the middle of a contemporary presidential debate. mike:
Zelophehad's Daughters
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That means the status of strings in string theory in physics can become a philosophical topic by way of discussions of realism and nominalism.
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Based on a careful understanding of his main work on universals: Logica ingredientibus, the present paper tries to give a systematical account of Abelard's philosophical thoughts of nominalism.
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The alternative between a theological and an independent theory of ethics is, he holds, the alternative between ethical nominalism and realism.
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And in this paradigm, he argues that the ontology is one of nominalism, programs do not exist in the abstract but only in the concrete.
Three Paradigms of Research in Computer Science « Beki's Blog (there's an original name)
