Nominalism

Yes Doug, I understand that Nocrates lives in a possible world where Nominalism is true.

An Argument from Realism Against Naturalism about Human Beings 2008

Yes Doug, I understand that Nocrates lives in a possible world where Nominalism is true.

An Argument from Realism Against Naturalism about Human Beings 2008

B) The truth or falsity of Socrates 'and Nocrates' thoughts are not explained fully by facts in their brains, but by whether Realism or Nominalism is true.

An Argument from Realism Against Naturalism about Human Beings 2008

B) The truth or falsity of Socrates 'and Nocrates' thoughts are not explained fully by facts in their brains, but by whether Realism or Nominalism is true.

An Argument from Realism Against Naturalism about Human Beings 2008

What the Church has condemned is neither the so-called Nominalism, nor Realism, nor philosophy in general, nor the method of arguing in theology, but certain applications of that method which are judged dangerous, i.e. matters which are not philosophical.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

Nominalism, which is irreconcilable with a spiritualistic philosophy and for that very reason with scholasticism as well, presupposes the ideological theory that the abstract concept does not differ essentially from sensation, of which it is only a transformation.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

All of these books, and the entire deconstruction movement started by Derrida, are a modern revisitation of Nominalism which is opposed to Realism, or what today we usually think of as the scientific method.

Performing Its Own Self 2010

For one kind of Nominalism denies the existence, and therefore the reality, of universals and the other denies the existence, and therefore the reality, of abstract objects.

Nominalism in Metaphysics Rodriguez-Pereyra, Gonzalo 2008

"Nominalism" is an essential element of the State theory of money.

McGarr Solicitors - Dublin Solicitors Ireland 2009

My question is this, in a world where Realism is correct what prevents the human brain from still operating completely on Nominalism?

An Argument from Realism Against Naturalism about Human Beings 2008