Conceptualism sought to unite realism and nominalism through the conception of mind, or an individual substance whose meanings may possess universal validity.
Nominalism maintained the exclusive reality of individual substances, and reduced ideas to particular signs having, like the name, a purely symbolical or descriptive value.
Nominalism is covered by empirical tendencies, and conceptualism by modern idealism.
Indeed, unless my opponents vacate the basis of Nominalismon which their opposition is founded, they must acknowledge that in the absence of any name for tree there can be no conception of tree.
The only difference, then, between Locke and Berkeley here is, that the nominalism of the former was not so complete or thorough as that of the latter.
If Roscelin was the founder of Nominalism Anselm identified Realism with the doctrine of the Church.
A pupil of both Roscelin and William of Champeaux--the two extremes of Nominalism and Realism--he aimed in his teaching at arriving at a via media to which subsequent writers have given the name Conceptualism.
With the new position of decided nominalism the foundation was prepared for the experimental sciences on the one hand, and mysticism on the other.
The former Realism and Nominalism were lifted into a higher phase by the principle of the universalizing action of intellect--Intellectus in formis agit universalitatem.
His individualism stood half-way between the former's nominalism and the latter's transcendentalism and subjectivism.
It is thanks to these artifices that by an unconscious nominalism the scientists have elevated above the laws what they call principles.
Nominalism has therefore limits, and this is what one might fail to recognize if one took to the very letter M.
Thus far nominalism triumphs; but now we arrive at the physical sciences, properly so called.
Nominalist in doctrine, but realist at heart, he seems to escape absolute nominalism only by a desperate act of faith.
Nietzsche is simply the representative of a type which according to the laws of history and mental evolution naturally and inevitably appears whenever the philosophy of nominalism reaches its climax.
Nominalism rose in opposition to the medieval realism of the schoolmen who looked upon universals as real and concrete things, representing them as individual beings that existed ante res, in rebus, and post res, i.
Lombroso's psychology is an outgrowth of nominalism which does not recognize an objective norm for truth, health, reason, or normality of any kind, and regards the average as the sole method of finding a norm.
The difference between them was just the difference between Nominalism and Realism, and Berkeley takes the Nominalist side.
Berkeley is usually esteemed the foremost of modern Nominalists, but we question if his Nominalism was more than a denial of Conceptualism.
But nominalismalways gained ground, having among other celebrated champions, Peter d'Ailly and Buridan; the one succeeded in becoming Chancellor of the University of Paris, the other in becoming its Rector.
Extreme realism cannot see the trees for the wood; nominalism cannot see the wood for the trees; moderate realism sees the wood in the trees.
Moderate realism is true of organic things; nominalism is true only of proper names.
It was, in the early Middle Ages; but after Occam (1330) Nominalism triumphed, and was the philosophy of the church till the Reformation.
In 1339 Occam's books were put under a ban and Nominalism solemnly condemned.
When the practical and the theoretical became divided, and still more when thought and being were separated by Nominalism (cf.
The work deals with the current difficulties betweennominalism and realism, the relation between the individual and the genus or species.
Platonic ideas, 164; the first protest of Nominalism against Realism, ib.
Nominalism is strongly emphasised, but where it is also admitted that the consequences were not actually drawn, and that it required “centuries of thought before the questions raised were pursued to their bitter end,” p.
Nominalism was fond of displaying its dialectic and even its insolence at the expense of theology on the despised Universal ideas.
Their one-sided Nominalism unfortunately led these Occamists to an excessive estimate of the powers of nature and an undervaluing of grace, and also to a certain incorrect view of the supernatural.
The general structure of his thoughts was derived from what he had retained of the Nominalism of Occam.
Thus the tendency to a false separation of natural and supernatural commended itself to him; he greedily seized upon the ideas of Nominalism with regard to imputation after he had commenced groping about for a new system of theology.
In this, its latest development, Scholasticism had fallen from its height, and, abandoning itself to speculative subtleties, had opened a wide field to Nominalism and its disintegrating criticism.
It is the first protest of Nominalism against the doctrine of an extreme Realism.
In the fourteenth, nominalism revived in Occam; the provinces of faith and philosophy were severed, and the final victory on the metaphysical question remained in the hands of the nominalists.
Nominalism was essentially the spirit of progress, of inquiry, of criticism.
Realism was in spirit deductive, starting from accepted dogmas: Nominalism was in spirit, though not in form, inductive.
The scepticism developed in the scholastic philosophy, as seen in the Nominalism of Abélard in the twelfth century.
Nominalism right in psychology and realism in logic.
If nominalism should prevail, then the Church would be shorn of much of its authority, for its greatest power lay in the conception of it as an enduring reality outside of and above all the individuals who shared in its work.
They tried nominalism and found that it ended in materialism.
Thus Nominalism logically led to an assault on the received doctrine of the Trinity--the central point in the theology of the Church.
Nominalism is the doctrine that individuals only have real existence (universalia POST rem,--the thought after the thing).
The Nominalism of Roscelin reappeared in the Rationalism of Abélard; and, carried out to its severe logical sequences, is the refusal to accept any doctrine which cannot be proved by reason.
But Anselm did not rest with combating the Nominalism of Roscelin.
Thomas Aquinas was raised to combat, with the weapons most esteemed in his day, the various forms of Rationalism, Pantheism, and Mysticism which then existed, and were included in the Nominalism of his antagonists.
Nominalism is the doctrine that individuals only have real existence (universalia POST rem,--the thought AFTER the thing).
The Nominalism of Roscelin reappeared in the rationalism of Abelard; and, carried out to its severe logical sequences, is the refusal to accept any doctrine which cannot be proved by reason.
