Psychological nominalism
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"George Henry Lewes has observed that the only medieval debate of any philosophical value is the debate between nominalism and realism. This opinion is rather temerarious, but it emphasizes the importance of the persistent controversy provoked at the beginning of the ninth century by a sentence from Porphyry, which Boethius translated and annotated: a controversy that Anselm and Roscellinus continued at the end of the eleventh century and that William of Occam reanimated in the fourteenth." --Jorge Luis Borges , "From Allegories to Novels", Other Inquisitions 1937-1952 |
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"From Allegories to Novels" is an essay by Jorge Luis Borges, collected in the anthology Other Inquisitions 1937-1952.
See also
- Abstraction
- Abstract object
- Conceptualism
- Concrete (philosophy)
- Idea
- Ideas Have Consequences
- Object
- Problem of universals
- Psychological nominalism
- Realism (philosophy)
- Substantial form
- Universal (metaphysics)
- William of Ockham
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