Definitionn. (philosophy) the doctrine that the various objects labeled by the same term have nothing in common but their name
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On the question of universals he endeavoured to steer a middle course between the pantheistically inclined realism of Duns Scotus and the extreme nominalism of William of Occam. [Please select]
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Rosmini,[174] in an elaborate criticism, complains that Stewart did not perceive the inevitable tendency of nominalism to materialism. [Please select]
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In 1339 Occam’s books were put under a ban and Nominalism solemnly condemned. [Please select]
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It was, in the early Middle Ages; but after Occam (1330) Nominalism triumphed, and was the philosophy of the church till the Reformation. [Please select]
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[388] This gives a wrong impression about Nominalism, that it was banned in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. [Please select]
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Nominalism is the doctrine that individuals only have real existence (_universalia_ POST _rem_,--the thought _after_ the thing). [Please select]
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Thus Nominalism logically led to an assault on the received doctrine of the Trinity--the central point in the theology of the Church. [Please select]
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