Nominalists

It is true that in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, thanks especially to the influence of theco-called Nominalists, a period of stagnation and decline set in, but the sixteenth century is marked by a revival.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913

The Nominalists were the followers of Zeno, and held that universal forms are merely modes of conception, and exist solely in and for the mind.

Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

Of course, Nominalists deny that reality exists independent of minds and kick Realists in their imagined faces by telling them that science is just a series of mental constructs and that anyone can be anything s/he wants to be.

Performing Its Own Self 2010

Many, if not most, Nominalists consider scientific theories, as disparate as global warming and evolution, as memes competing for minds that give them life, and not as truths or falsehoods which can only be verified by careful experiments.

Performing Its Own Self 2010

Since you believe that we are presently living in an RT-world, and there are people who call themselves Nominalists in this world, their believe that Plato is wise, would have different content from a Realist belief that Plato is wise.

An Argument from Realism Against Naturalism about Human Beings 2008

You need an argument that shows that in an NT-world, only Nominalists exist.

An Argument from Realism Against Naturalism about Human Beings 2008

Since you believe that we are presently living in an RT-world, and there are people who call themselves Nominalists in this world, their believe that Plato is wise, would have different content from a Realist belief that Plato is wise.

An Argument from Realism Against Naturalism about Human Beings 2008

Nominalists might try to push the argument a bit further here, claiming that the sentence

Platonism in Metaphysics Balaguer, Mark 2009

But then, in the 14th century, the Scholastics lost the great medieval debate to the Nominalists, who taught that the only truths we can know for sure are those revealed to us through our senses.

Archive 2008-05-25 papabear 2008

So if I were to hurl an epithet across the barricades at SSM proponents, it would be, “Nominalists!”

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