nominalist in a sentence
Examples
- These late medieval nominalist features, Utz proposes, may well be responsible for modern readers'pronounced preference for Chaucer over other, more typically medieval writers.
- The answer usually falls in one of three realms depending on whether the theorist sees the phenomena through the lens of a realist, nominalist, or social constructionist.
- The continued movement to other universities produced a school of Scottish nominalists at Paris in the early sixteenth century, of which John Mair was probably the most important figure.
- His acutely nominalist temperament finds its ideal home in the stories of India, especially those early stories of the Aryans, which affirm always the power and sovereignty of mind.
- For writers who accepted a nominalist understanding of the relationship between God and man ( both Cumberland and Hobbes ), this was not an easy question to answer ."
- These were nobody's promise to pay anything, the ultimate conclusion of Western monetary history and the final triumph of the nominalist history of money, " he wrote.
- Sometimes he is classified as a " moderate nominalist ", but his admitting of objective precision ( " praecisio obiectiva " ) ranks him with moderate realists.
- Twar�g had studied at Paris in 1473 77, in the period when, following the anathematization of the Nominalists ( 1473 ), the Scotist school was there enjoying its greatest triumphs.
- From a nominalist's perspective, the connection between S and M is the connection between a particular entity ( Socrates ) and a vast collection of particular things ( men ).
- Most nominalists have held that only physical particulars in space and time are real, and that universals exist only " post res ", that is, subsequent to particular things.