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Berkeley, for example, argued against universals or abstract objects using nominalistic arguments.

To date, only a small fraction of the corpus of modern mathematics can be rederived in a nominalistic fashion.

According to some researchers, it would in such cases of "legal recognition of vacatio, "but the question becomes in fact nominalistic.

Once a member of the faculty he hoped to rid it of all Nominalistic tendencies nor was he disappointed in his expectation.

Chihara, C. (2007) The Burgess-Rosen critique of nominalistic reconstructions.

The evolution of late scholastic terminology has led to the emergence of Conceptualism, which stemmed from doctrines that were previously considered to be nominalistic.

Mr President, Greece meets the convergence criteria according to the European Commission' s verdict, which is based on a very nominalistic interpretation.

In this nominalistic Protestant view of relationship between God and creation, the mystery of God becomes utterly unattainable for human reason, even if it is illumined by faith.

Metallism (using coins of some valuable metal like gold or silver) is a nominalistic money system, one which the United States had moved away from with the National Banking Act of 1863.

These constructions in what Gödel 1944 would call "nominalistic constructivism . . . which might better be called fictionalism" derived from Russell's "more radical idea, the "no-class theory" (p. 125):

Jens F. Ihwe, Eric Vos, and Heleen Pott, Worlds Made from Words: Semiotics from a Nominalistic Point of View.

William of Ockham inspired anti-metaphysical tendencies with his nominalistic limitation of human knowledge to singular objects, and asserted that the divine essence could not be intuitively or rationally apprehended by human intellect.

It seems most probable that Roscellinus was not strictly the first to promulgate nominalistic doctrines; but in his exposition they received more definite expression, and being applied to the dogma of the Trinity, attracted universal attention.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in voting in favour of the joint resolution, I am highlighting the particular seriousness of the violence carried out in Malaysia in response to an exclusively nominalistic issue.

Advocates of phylogenetic nomenclature, a more nominalistic view, oppose this reading; in their opinion, calling an animal a mammal is a shorthand way of saying that it is descended from the last common ancestor of, say, humans and platypuses.

Another Scottish scholar, Andrew Lang, early in the 20th century advocated a nominalistic meaning for totemism , namely that local groups, clans, or phratries, in selecting totem names from the realm of nature, were reacting to a need to be differentiated.

Walach is best known for his contributions towards a contemporary, (self-)critical science of consciousness that aims to include empirical research on spiritual experiences and practices in a trans-cultural trajectory, and thus tries to integrate "nominalistic" and "realistic" features of current and traditional consciousness and psychological research.

According to the "nominalistic method" proposed by Max Müller, the origin of the name "Voroneg" and the name of a bird "voron" (raven) should be considered in relation to the Indo-European eponyms: Uranus, Varuna, Phoroneus, Bran the Blessed, and so on.

By relying on cultural norms to define several of his types, he implicitly gives up the project of providing a single, objective, universally valid clinical definition of alcoholism, and opens the door to anthropological nominalistic definitions along the lines of "whatever is normal drinking in that particular culture is normal drinking".

Where Russell's problem derives from is the "constructivistic (or nominalistic) standpoint toward the objects of logic and mathematics, in particular toward propositions, classes, and notions . . . a notion being a symbol . . . so that a separate object denoted by the symbol appears as a mere fiction" (p. 128).