nominalist in a sentence
Examples
- Grover Furr called Utz " perhaps the foremost exponent of the'paradigm'of Nominalist influence upon late Medieval English literature.
- Some Abhidharmikas such as the Praj�aptivda were also strict nominalists, and held that all things-even dharmas-were merely conceptual.
- He belonged, like Thomas Aquinas and Bonaventure, to that " School of the Middle " which mediated between realists and nominalists.
- Le [ niewski was also a radical nominalist : he rejected axiomatic set theory at a time when that theory was in full flower.
- The nominalist critique of the view that kinds of things exist, raises for consideration the role that humans play in the species problem.
- Other Buddhist schools such as the Praj�aptivadins ('nominalists'), the Purvasailas and the Vainasikas refused to accept the concept of svabhava.
- The opposition, however, he met from the Nominalists Gabriel Biel, Paul Scriptoris, and others, rendered his service here of short duration.
- Ian Hacking has also argued that much of what is called social constructionism of science in contemporary times is actually motivated by an unstated nominalist metaphysical view.
- William of Ockham ( " circa " 1287 1347 ) was an English Franciscan friar and theologian, an influential medieval philosopher and a nominalist.
- The nominalist philosopher William of Ockham ( 1287 1347 ) regarded the principle as unnecessary and indeed meaningless, since there are no realities independent of individual things.