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abstract objects as such—objects that do not
exist in
space and time. Most
nominalists have held that only
physical particulars in
space and time are real,...
- of the
doctrines of Plato, just as
modern nominalists need not
accept the
doctrines of
medieval Nominalists." "Abstract Objects"
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- have
roots in the
medieval controversy between the
nominalists and realists.[citation needed]
Nominalists ****erted that only real
things are
entities and...
- independent,
abstract universals to
account for
attribute agreement.
Nominalists deny that
universals exist,
claiming that they are not
necessary to explain...
- God.
William of
Ockham inspired anti-metaphysical
tendencies with his
nominalist limitation of
human knowledge to
singular objects, and ****erted that the...
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incomprehensible unless universals exist outside of the mind,
whereas nominalists believe that such
ideas are 'empty verbalism'.
Quine himself does not...
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which split ancient and
medieval philosophers,
especially realists and
nominalists. The
triangle describes a
simplified form of
relationship between the...
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intellectual activity.
There was a
debate between the
realists and the
nominalists over the
concept of "universals".
Philosophical discourse was stimulated...
- bicycle, an apple, and a
particular woman's hair can all be red). In the
nominalist view,
everything is particular. A
universal at each
moment in time, from...
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sound without a
corresponding objective reality;
expression used by the
nominalists of
universals and
traditionally attributed to the
medieval philosopher...
