10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NOMINALIST»
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nominalist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
nominalist and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Understanding Chaucer's intellectual and interpretative ...
A new interpretation in which Foster (English, Whitman College) synthesizes past critical studies on the 14th-century English writer's entire canon.
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The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics
in a fiction and it takes serious reflection to notice that our words are not to be
taken literally. According to the fictionalist nominalist, with regard to mathematics
and other disciplines deep into commitment to abstracta, we are much like
children ...
Michael J. Loux, Dean W. Zimmerman, 2005
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Darwin and the Nature of Species
Ever since the publication of Darwin's Origin, biologists, historians, and
philosophers have interpreted Darwin as being a species nominalist. Species
nominalism is the view that species are not real, that they are not out there in
nature, existing ...
Perhaps it is some kind of awareness of the inadequacy of the 'nominalist'
explanation that finally leaves Gardner uncertain as to Chaucer's realist or
nominalist tendencies: Chaucer would make it [nominalism] the very heart of his
comedy, ...
5
The Social Construction of What?
The nominalist retorts that we have a good deal to do with organizing what we
call a fact. The world of nature does not just come with a totality of facts: rather it is
we who organize the world into facts. The nominalist controversy need not detain
...
6
Quarrel Between Invariance and Flux: A Guide for ...
For if we deny the mistaken premiss that is common to the realist's argument and
the nominalist's argument then we can deny the realist's mistaken conclusion and
deny the nominalist's mistaken conclusion; and that is another way of saying ...
Joseph Margolis, Jacques Catudal, 2010
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Existence: Essays in Ontology
are such that the nominalist will object to anyone's affirming that they have
nonempty extensions.) And I will assume, simply for the sake of the concrete
illustrations of the Quinean meta-ontology at work that I shall present, that
individual ...
8
Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview
Each of these exact similarity relations themselves will exactly resemble each of
the other exact similarity relations. How is this to be explained? The extreme
nominalist will have to postulate higher ex- act similarity relations between each
pair ...
James Porter Moreland, William Lane Craig, 2003
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Substance and Attribute: A Study in Ontology
Thus, the extreme nominalist typically questions not the intelligibility or
coherence of the accounts of attribute-agreement provided by the nominalist and
realist but rather their theoretical point. He wants to insist that his own theory is
sufficiently ...
10
The Experience and Language of Grace
The focus of this attack was the latent Pelagianism and semi-Pelagianism in the
Nominalist concern for what human beings could do toward their salvation
without God's grace.5 The Nominalists had a generally optimistic view of human
nature ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NOMINALIST»
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nominalist is used in the context of the following news items.
Lacan v. Foucault
He ends up, she says, “a bit of a historicist” and “a bit of a nominalist,” and one might add “a bit of a structuralist” (7). Why does Foucault fail? «First Things, Jun 15»
Inhabiting the Secular
The foundations of late medieval civilization were shaking: the nominalist God who did whatever he wanted seemed believable. The sixteenth ... «CounterPunch, Jun 15»
Jeremy Westbrook: Covenant community a living hope in nominalist …
Westbrook-1 When Jeremy Westbrook sensed the call to plant a church in Central Ohio, he didn't know exactly where the Lord was calling him. «The Southern News, Jun 15»
Through the Looking-Glass
... choose it to mean—neither more nor less,” he expresses a respectable nominalist stance. But when Alice impertinently questions whether he ... «Wall Street Journal, Jun 15»
On Graduations, Universities, and What Is “Practically Useless”
If behind the world was only a system of voluntarism, as was held in Islam or in later western nominalist thought, we could not be sure that the ... «Catholic World Report, May 15»
Homophobia And Starfish
From a Nominalist viewpoint, that would make no sense: would the couple feel at one with all the soil bacteria that are being disturbed by their ... «Science 2.0, May 15»
Rethinking Theology and Matter with Ibn Gabirol
... hylomorphism—the idea that everything God creates is composed of form and matter—and treated as a precursor of the nominalist emphasis ... «First Things, Apr 15»
A Lion of the American Church: Thoughts on the Passing of Cardinal …
This metaphysics of relationality stands in sharp distinction to the typically modern and nominalist ontology of individual things, which gave rise ... «Patheos, Apr 15»
Kwame Anthony Appiah: The Complexities of Black Folk
K.A.A.: One reason I'm a nominalist about identities is that you can say that there's a shared label, then say that what it does, both in the mind of ... «New York Times, Apr 15»
Post-Nominalist Theology
John Milbank is no nominalist, yet in Beyond Secular Order he insists that the nominalists raised questions that could not simply be answered ... «First Things, Apr 15»
