Meanings of nominalism in anglès

They tried nominalism and found that it ended in materialism.

With him were associated the schoolmen who debated the question of realism versus nominalism.

In truth, pure nominalism-if ,indeed ,anyone ever maintained it-afforded no cover whatever.

The words republic and monarchy will make them laugh, as we on our part, laughed, at realism and nominalism.

He studied under Anselm of Laon and Roscellinus, his training in philosophy thereby being influenced by both realism and nominalism.

Abélard afterwards modified his nominalism and behaved somewhat unhandsomely to him, but never escaped from the influence of his teaching.

The work deals with the current difficulties between nominalism and realism, the relation between the individual and the genus or species.

The view of Socrates is the meeting-point of the other two, just as conceptualism is the meeting-point of nominalism and realism.

With the new position of decided nominalism the foundation was prepared for the experimental sciences on the one hand, and mysticism on the other.

Neither do we discuss the nature of the proposition, nor extract hidden truths from the copula, nor dispute any longer about nominalism and realism.

But Anselm did not rest with combating the Nominalism of Roscelin.

At that time the latter doctrine, that of Nominalism, as it was called, prevailed.

The nature of the resultant concepts belongs to the great controversy between Nominalism, Realism and Conceptualism.

They have emerged into the new Nominalism.

Nominalism is the doctrine that individuals only have real existence (universalia POST rem,-thethought AFTER the thing).

Thus Nominalism logically led to an assault on the received doctrine of the Trinity-thecentral point in the theology of the Church.