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		Evidently, the nominalist needs a new sort of quantificational device that may occur within modal contexts and that nevertheless has the force of indicating the existence of things that are now actual.
		The conclusion is that the foregoing nominalist proposals are doomed.
		Such nominalists would hold that [A] is only accidentally a linguistic token and that it is essentially a particular graphite mark with a certain shape (or that it is a particular kind of physical sound blast or something of the sort).
	ucsu.colorado.edu /~bsid/ftp/Bealer_Universals.doc (7980 words)

	Encyclopedia: Nominalist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Nominalists find it weird that there could be a single thing that exists in a bunch of places all at once.
		Some resemblance nominalists will concede that the resemblance relation is itself a universal, but is the only universal you need.
		One way to be a nominalist without being an "ostrich nominalist" like the predicate nominalists ("ostrich" because they seem to simply stick their heads in the sand and pretend there isn't a problem--the phrase is D.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Nominalist (927 words)

	Norminalism
		“Christian” nominalists make up one of the largest mission fields in the world and quite possibly the largest in the United States.1 Any treatment of evangelism in the American culture would be deficient without a discussion of the peculiar challenges presented by the nominalist mindset.
		One nominalist may hold a sincere religious commitment to spiritual truth as they see it, while another may be indifferent to spiritual matters altogether.
		Nominalist reasoning is grounded in the ignorance of pride and is oblivious to the theological realities of man's sin, God's holiness and grace's necessity.
	www.greatcom.org /resources/tell_it_often_tell_it_well/chap10/default.htm (3006 words)

	Nominalist Reading Room - Nelson Goodman and W. V. Quine - "Steps Toward a Constructive Nominalism" - ...
		A nominalistic syntax language may of course, still contain shape-predicates, enabling us to say that a given prescription is, for example, dot-shaped, dotted-line-shaped, Odyssey-shaped.
		It might be supposed that the nominalist must regard as unclear any predicate of individuals for which there is no explanation that does not involve commitment to abstract entities.
		Actually, though, the nominalistic definition of proof in the present paper will be simpler than that in terms of framed ingredients; for it will not require the lines of a proof to be concatenated, nor to be marked off by intervening signs.
	evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com /quine_goodman_nominalism.htm (7905 words)

	Ephilosopher :: Metaphysics and Epistemology :: Universals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		So the metaphysical realist and nominalist want to give an account (that's jargon for 'analysis' or 'explanation of') of expressions of similarity in attributes (that's jargon for characterisitcs or properties).
		Well, the nominalists are going to say that this posits unnecessary and probably an incoherent entity into our ontology, namely universals, which are somehow able to be at two or more places at once.
		Well, that's what the nominalists are saying goes on when we say two things are the same color; they're saying that we'd place those things in the class RED THINGS.
	www.ephilosopher.com /phpBB_14-action-viewtopic-topic-2168.html (1134 words)

	A Nominalist's Dilemma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		But this comes with a cost: to avoid commitment to mathematical entities, nominalists cannot take mathematical theories literally, and so, they seem unable to accommodate mathematical practice.
		In a recent work, Jody Azzouni (2004) has challenged this conclusion, by formulating a nominalist view that doesn't have this cost.
		It faces a dilemma to the effect that either the view isn't nominalist or it fails to take mathematics literally.
	mally.stanford.edu /abstracts/AzzouRef.html (141 words)

	William of Ockham [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		William of Ockham, the Franciscan school man, nominalist, and "doctor invincibilis," was born at Ockham in 1280 and died in Munich on April 10, 1349.
		He was the leader of the nominalists, the founder of the "modern" school.
		Ockham undoubtedly believed in the logical validity of his critical statements; but a complete overturning of the ecclesiastical organism was as far from his temperament as the creation of a new system of Scriptural theology.
	www.iep.utm.edu /o/ockham.htm (3433 words)

	Notes on the Palamite Controversy and Related Topics, Part I
		That Barlaam was indeed a Christian Platonist and not a nominalist is obvious from a reading of the quotations from his works to be found in the condemnation of 1341 and in the texts of Palamas translated by Meyendorff.
		A further proof that Barlaam cannot be classified as a nominalist is the fact that he criticizes the Latins and Thomas Aquinas for identifying all things in God with the divine essence.
		If he were a nominalist, he would not criticize the Latins for identifying all things in God with the divine essence, but would take them to task for making even a Thomistic virtual distinction, since the Occamists refused to make any distinction whatever.
	www.orthodoxinfo.com /inquirers/frjr_notes1.aspx (6323 words)

	Furr, " Nominalism in the Nun's Priest's Tale: A Preliminary Study
		The mention of Bradwardine's name naturally evokes the debate over nominalist views of free will and divine power for which the Archbishop was famous in Chaucer's day, as well as the continuing influence of his determinist views on the contemporary works of Bradwardine's followers, which included John Wyclif.
		A more obvious avenue for nominalist influence in the NPT is the work of Robert Holcot, one of Ockham's most radical followers.
		Nominalists like Ockham were suspicious of statements that claimed a "real" (in the Platonic sense) existence for abstractions; and Ockham's famous "razor" stated that "entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily." Pertelote's attitude towards Chauntecleer's dream embodies both concepts.
	chss.montclair.edu /english/furr/npt.html (4103 words)

	INTELLECTUAL KNOWLEDGE AND THE P
		The extreme nominalist, of which there are few examples in the history of philosophy, holds that there is no basis in reality for our calling many things by the same word, that our classifications are purely arbitrary or conventional.
		In this way nominalists claim there is no need to posit anything like universal concepts, and so that there is no need to posit a qualitative difference between intellectual knowledge and sense knowledge.
		According to the resemblance nominalist, x is called "red" because of its similarity to (say) a tomato; y also is called "red" because of its similarity to a tomato; and z also is called "red," again, because of its similarity to a tomato.
	www2.franciscan.edu /plee/intellectual_knowledge_and_the_p.htm (2572 words)

	Jesse Prinz December 12, 1993 Can the Nominalist Explain Metaphor? Comments on Jonathan Cohen's "Nominalism and ...
		He suggests that an aversion to non-extensional elements of meaning deprives the nominalist of the resources necessary for a complete 'hermeneutics' of metaphorical meaning.
		Nominalists, Cohen insists, are not equipped to explain the asymmetric dependence of metaphorical applications.
		This line of explanation is unavailable to the nominalist, because nominalists repudiate abstract objects including properties.
	evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com /prinz.htm (2086 words)

	Nominalist?
		Nominalists try to avoid talking about any kind of universals, > but they sometimes admit sets or classes as the least objectionable > kinds of abstract entities.
		I might infer from this that you consider me a nominalist.
		Nominalists try to avoid talking about any kind of > universals, > but they sometimes admit sets or classes as the least objectionable > kinds of abstract entities.
	grouper.ieee.org /groups/suo/email/msg00135.html (1101 words)

	Divine Election Vs. Armenianism - CMCentral.com Forum
		This is a Nominalist conception of freedom: the freedom to choose between alternatives.
		For a Nominalist, an act must be (1) ascribed to God alone, (2) ascribed to man alone, or (3) ascribed to God and man as yoked oxen pull a cart, i.e.
		To a Nominalist, it would make no sense to say "My faith is 100% my act and 100% God's act." Yet this is precisely what a Realist would say, because Realists acknowledge the possibility of multiple levels of causation.
	forum.cmcentral.com /index.php?s=&showtopic=41798&view=findpost&p=970857 (1699 words)

	RORTY'S THEORY OF TRUTH
		That is, it suggests the nominalist account that there is nothing which binds together the members of a group which we classify together other than the fact that we classify them together, presumably acting upon some interest of ours.
		For although he speaks dismissively, Rorty does say that truth is "the name of a property which all true statements share." It is what is common to his set of enumerated truths.
		And that language is definitely not nominalist, in fact is definitely realist, Platonic in fact.
	faculty.fullerton.edu /mring/Rorty.htm (705 words)

	NOMINALIST
		Luther as nominalist : a study of the logical methods used in Martin Luther's disputations in the light of their medieval background (reference)
		Outline of a nominalist theory of propositions : an essay in the theory of meaning and in the philosophy of logic (reference)
		"NOMINALIST" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English.
	www.websters-online-dictionary.org /No/Nominalist.html (461 words)

	Nominalist? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Nominalists try to avoid talking about any kind of universals, > but they sometimes admit sets or classes as the least objectionable > kinds of abstract entities.
		I might infer from this that you consider me a nominalist.
		Nominalists try to avoid talking about any kind of > universals, > but they sometimes admit sets or classes as the least objectionable > kinds of abstract entities.
	0-suo.ieee.org.csulib.ctstateu.edu /email/msg00135.html (1101 words)

	Nominalist position. William of ockham
		He and his followers - usually labeled 'nominalists' - claimed that all ideas were really images, that is, impressions on the imagination originating in sensual perception.
		The error - it is one shared by virtually all modern 'philosophers' and psychologists - is that nominalists confound the individualized image of the imagination with the concept or idea which resides in the Intellect.
		If the Nominalists are correct, man has no higher intellect; reason or logic are unexplainable and can only be applied to measurable phenomena and so-called 'experience' - our emotions and feelings.
	www.wandea.org.pl /william-ockham.htm (4272 words)

	Nominalism - LoveToKnow 1911
		Occam's dictum "Entia non multiplicanda sunt praeter necessitatem" was inspired by a spirit similar to that of Bacon.
		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.
		This page was last modified 02:10, 30 Aug 2006.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Nominalism (290 words)

	Ed Brandon - Nominalism PH3903
		The nominalist argument is, then, that we do not need the two irreducibly different categories of particulars and universals with its associated weird claims about universals; we can get by just with particulars.
		Rather than say that F connotes F-ness, Loux's austere nominalist appeals to the notion of satisfaction, or being true of: F is true of a, or a satisfies the predicate F.
		Here the austere nominalist cannot even invoke the idea of some regular transformation; rather he has to try to analyse away the universal in each case from scratch.
	www.cavehill.uwi.edu /bnccde/PH39C/meta6.html (1846 words)

	Nominalism
		V, in which a, b, c, d, and e are the only things in existence, but a, b, and c are red, while d and e are white.
		But the more fundamental counter-reply to make (that is, for the realist to make) would be to point out that my objection was against the implication that V and W were indiscernible, and the alleged fact that they contain distinct token relations has nothing to do with that.
		The second nominalist defense that might occur would involve just accepting that the imaginary worlds, V and W, are indiscernible; or else saying that what I purported to imagine is not really possible.
	home.sprynet.com /~owl1/nominali.htm (1579 words)

	Medieval Theories of Haecceity
		But, as Scotus sees it, the more nominalist view of haecceities is not available to him, and the reason is that he is a realist on the question of universals.
		One direction is nominalist: there could be individual natures (of the same kind), and each such nature be of itself particular.
		Ockham is sometimes presented as though his distinctive position on the question of individuation is simply the result of his distinctive nominalist position on the question of universals.
	www.seop.leeds.ac.uk /archives/win2003/entries/medieval-haecceity (9554 words)

	Nominalism
		The principal objection of nominalists is to the attribution of objective existence to ideas formally as they exist in the mind and fundamentally (or potentially) as they exist in particulars having some similarity to each other in any given class or species.
		The nominalist-realist controversy became prominent in the late 11th and 12th centuries, the nominalist position being expounded by the Scholastic Roscelin, and the realist by the Scholastics Bernard of Chartres and William of Champeaux.
		Nominalism is the theory of knowledge that maintains that "universals" (general concepts representing the common elements belonging to individuals of the same genus or species) are empty concepts that have no reality independent of their existence in the thought of an individual.
	mb-soft.com /believe/txn/nominali.htm (968 words)

	Letter to E.J. Applewhite
		Whereas the Platonist thinks meanings of words may stem from their pointing to metaphysical universals, the nominalist considers these same words to be linked only to particulars, as universals do not exist.
		The nominalistic doctrine is opposed to the philosophical theory called extreme realism, according to which universals have a real and independent existence prior to and apart from particular objects.
		Hence my quotes from Finch, in which "the nominalist" is the one most frustrated (most countered) by the PI approach.
	www.grunch.net /synergetics/mathphil.html (1548 words)

	Pipes, the nominalist, decides words have fixed meanings after all
		Daniel Pipes complains about the fact that his critical posture toward radical Islam is now being attacked as “racist.” He quotes several dictionary definitions of racism, shows that they all have to do with race not religion, and concludes, entirely correctly, that criticism of Islam cannot be racist.
		In other words, why is Pipes a nominalist when it comes to promoting his pet belief in moderate Islam, but an anti-nominalist when it comes to defending himself from the charge that he is a racist?
		Now perhaps Pipes would reply that Muslims have the right to define their own religion as they like, but that they don't have the right to define other people's beliefs, namely the beliefs of the supposed anti-Islamic "racists," as they like.
	www.amnation.com /vfr/archives/004596.html (370 words)

	The Sorites Paradox - A Nominalist View - Jud Evans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In other words the abstraction 'language' is one of the ways [very important ways] in which humans exist, and as human beings develop and change the ways in which they exist the meaningful noises they make change [in their significance and complexity] too.
		This general nominalist observation can be extended to the whole cosmos in relation to the primitive human concepts of beginnings and ends.
		I have my nominalist agenda you see and I admit it — but having an agenda — or way-stations on my road to my version of an understanding of the world before I leave it — is the way I work — my modus vivendi.
	uncouplingthecopula.freewebspace.com /sorites_paradox.htm (827 words)

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		In the subsequent section I will argue that on the basis of his logical theory of essential predication Buridan is definitely able to maintain a version of essentialism that is sufficient to provide the required foundation of valid scientific generalizations, and to refute skeptical doubts against the possibility of such a foundation.
		We have to provide such explanations of the intended meanings of the attributes in question that show them to be in fact compatible, but, at the same time, we should also be able to show that these intended meanings are not just ad hoc, twisted interpretations, but are genuinely in line with common, proper usage.
		Conclusion: empiricism, nominalism and essentialism in semantics, metaphysics and epistemology All in all, it seems that Buridan is successful in providing a purely nominalist ontology combined with an essentialist logic on the basis of his doctrine of essential predicates of substances as being those common terms that are subordinated to absolute, substantial concepts.
	www.phil-inst.hu /~gyula/FILES/BuridansEssentialism.doc (4768 words)

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