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I meant to post this on Good Friday. It came that day from Ken Myers, the creator and host of the indispensable Mars Hill Audio Journal. I post it with his permission: Your post (prepared yesterday) ...

I am a proponent of nominalism when it comes to religion. Or, to put it another way, instead of a religion being a Platonic category with precise and specific boundaries, I think a more accurate model ...

Currency nominalism is a legal principle of keeping the amount of a debt obligation fixed despite fluctuations in the money’s purchasing power or exchange rate. According to this principle, the ...

I argue that constructive nominalism is preferable to scientific realism. Rather than reflecting without distortion the way the mind-independent world is, theories refract. They provide an ...

In this paper I argue that the analysis of natural properties as convex subsets of a metric space in which the distances are degrees of dissimilarity is incompatible with both the definition of degree ...

Understand nominalism in just 2 minutes a philosophical stance that denies the existence of universal forms outside our minds. This simplified breakdown clarifies how nominalists see concepts like ...

Once nominalism severs the sacred chain connecting all being to God, creation shrinks back from its Creator. Main picture: Sketch of William of Ockham labeled ‘frater Occham iste’. (From a manuscript ...