nominalist

But whether he was a pure or consistent nominalist is unclear.

It is exactly this power that the nominalist is trying to analyse and explain.

Once finished either the nominalist or the realist cycle, they started with the one which they had not read before.

Why I am not a nominalist.

In logic, he was an Aristotelian nominalist; in natural philosophy, an empiricist.

Although both men were forced to modify their opinions later in life, initially they held the extreme 'nominalist' and 'essentialist'positions.

"Nominalist and Realist"

Everyone knows that the Nominalist declared that things differ too much to be really classified; so that they are only labelled.

I have been variously called a nominalist, an instrumentalist, a positivist, a realist, and several other ists.

Scotus is generally considered to be a realist (as opposed to a nominalist) in that he treated universals as real.

Nominalist, creator of Ockham's razor.

Leśniewski was also a radical nominalist: he rejected axiomatic set theory at a time when that theory was in full flower.

Paradoxically, Martin was a positivist and radical nominalist who also sympathized with process theology and orthodox Christianity.

For example, the Nominalist, Benedict Hesse, while in principle accepting the theory of impetus, did not apply it to the heavenly spheres.

For this reason Ockham has been called a "terminist", to distinguish him from a nominalist or a conceptualist.

Popper himself is a realist as opposed to an idealist, but a methodological nominalist as opposed to an essentialist.

Romanides proceeds to argue that Barlaam was clearly a Christian Platonist and not a nominalist.

There was a rise to dominance of the nominalist or voluntarist theologies of men like William of Ockham.

Although James certainly agreed with Peirce and against Berkeley that general ideas exist as a psychological fact, he was a nominalist in his ontology:

The answer usually falls in one of three realms depending on whether the theorist sees the phenomena through the lens of a realist, nominalist, or social constructionist.

Mirecourt is generally thought to be a nominalist, and is often thought of as being a follower of William Ockham.

Sometimes he is classified as a moderate nominalist, but his admitting of objective precision (praecisio obiectiva) ranks him with moderate realists.

He is described by Michael R. Allen as the heir to the oratorical vision of Lorenzo Valla, and a better nominalist.

Metaphysically speaking, Musgrave can be considered a nominalist; he argues for a position he specifically calls Pleonastic Platonism.

Though a Nominalist, he was tolerant of Realism, which also flourished at Tübingen under the leadership of Konrad Summenhart.

Prior thinkers, particularly nominalist William of Ockham in the early 14th century, had begun the intellectual movement toward empiricism.

Rorty claims that the majority of people would be "commonsensically nominalist and historicist" but not ironist.

But positivism and utilitarianism, being nominalist and individualist in character, did not attempt to address directly the basic question of how order in society is achieved and maintained.

His acutely nominalist temperament finds its ideal home in the stories of India, especially those early stories of the Aryans, which affirm always the power and sovereignty of mind.

I think he was a Nominalist like Abelard: and whatever excuse you may make for him, Abelard was a Nominalist right enough, for it was the intellectual thing to be at the time, though St. Bernard utterly confuted him in arguments of enormous length and incalculable boredom.