On the other hand the Nominalist held that the only realities in the case were the individual Europeans, that the name 'European' was merely a name and nothing more than a name applied to all these instances.
With the difference of Realist and Nominaliststated baldly, as we have stated it here, the modern reader unaccustomed to philosophical discussion may be disposed to leap at once to the side of the Nominalist.
The difference between them was just the difference between Nominalism and Realism, and Berkeley takes the Nominalist side.
There are several assertions in his 'Common-place Book' which show that even in his earlier days he was not a Nominalist in the proper sense of the term.
The nominalist attitude is justified only when it is convenient; when is it so?
Nominalist in doctrine, but realist at heart, he seems to escape absolute nominalism only by a desperate act of faith.
Hobbes's Nominalist definition is adequate, namely, that a proposition asserts or denies that the predicate is a name for the same thing as the subject, as Tully is Cicero.
There is even a sense in which the Ultra-Nominalist doctrine that the individuals in a class have nothing in common but the name is tenable.
By the Nominalist commentators on the Summulae of Petrus Hispanus certain names, adjectives grammatically, are called Connotativa as opposed to Absoluta, simply because they have a double function.
Man's reason, according to this consistent nominalist view, is purely subjective and has no prototype in the objective world.
A consistent nominalist will be driven from one conclusion to another until he reaches the stage of Nietzsche, which is philosophical anarchism and extreme individualism.
The nominalist denies the reality of reason; he regards the existence of universals as a fiction, and looks upon the world as a heap of particulars.
Nominalist doctrines in the University and in all the schools of the kingdom; all Nominalist books were boxed up and sealed until 1481, when Louis was persuaded to recall his edict, and the university rejoiced to regain her liberty.
The arguments which Occam the Nominalist opposes to those of Duns Scotus the Realist, are marked with the stamp of the same system, and consist only in permutations and combinations of the same elementary conceptions.
Haureau points out that St Thomas was a vitalist in physics, an animist in metaphysics, a nominalist in philosophy, and a realist in theology.
By this latter route the Sorbonne, originally opposed to the Thomists, became nominalist after all; as did those once pious realists the Augustinians and Cistercians.
Wycliffe was a realist, and to him the nominalist position seemed untenable altogether.
He became urgent against the reigning nominalist creed, but most especially against its theories of the Sacrament.
Dietrich Niem represents a German influence; but the main source of inspiration was the University of Paris, firmly orthodox and nominalist and immensely influential.
In the year 1092 a nominalist philosopher Roscellinus was condemned at Soissons for teaching Tritheism and denying the Trinity.
The more evangelical theory of Thomas Aquinas was largely neglected, and the Nominalist Schoolmen based their expositions of the doctrine on the teaching of John Duns Scotus.
Its theology represented the more modern type of scholastic, the Scotist; its philosophy was the nominalist teaching of William of Occam, whose great disciple, Gabriel Biel (d.
He had to confess to himself that he sometimes almost hated this arbitrary Will which the nominalist Schoolmen called God.
The words Realist and Nominalist came into use about the end of the twelfth century.
These were the heads of the nominalist party; and their opinion might be connected, though not necessarily, with the denial of the reality of mixed modes.
Many have borrowed from Hobbes without naming him; and in fact he is the founder of the nominalist school in England.
If the Realist went too far in affirming the objective reality of his conception, the Nominalisterred on the other in overlooking its subjective reality as a mode or state of the mind, and reducing it to a mere name.
The Realist accused the Nominalist of virtually denying the doctrine of the Trinity, inasmuch as, according to him, the idea of Trinity is only an abstraction, and there is no Being corresponding to that idea.
Dubitando ad inquisitionem venimus; inquirendo veritatem percipimus,” are those of the nominalist Abélard.
With the nominalist and conceptualist it was created by man, and amenable to correction.
