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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Nominalism"”.
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Nominalism In Mathematics - Modality And Naturalism
<p>I defend modal nominalism in philosophy of mathematics - under which quantification over mathematical ontology is replaced with various modal assertions - against two sources of resistance: that modal nominalists face difficulties justifying the modal assertions that figure in their theories, …
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Protestant Nominalism: An Analysis of Post-Reformation (1555-1662) Protestant Philosophical Theology
… Protestant philosophical theology with Scotism-nominalism is not borne out in these representative figures, that the relationship between philosophical and doctrinal theology in Protestantism is underdetermined, and that other, non-philosophical concerns (such as exegesis and pastoral concerns) …
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In the Wake of Abelard: Nominalisms in the Twelfth Century
Since nominalism is among the main positions within one of the most famous debates of the Middle Ages, namely the debate on universals, and given the usual portrayal of Abelard (1079–1142) as the intellectual forefather of nominalism, the scarcity of the literature on twelfth-century nominalism and …
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Semiotic Analysis of Workforce Diversity
… from a paradigm other than positivism and nominalism embedded in empiriometric models which are in no way equipped to understand the reality of diversity. Design/Methodology/Approach: Peirce opposed nominalism and positivism. Thus, this thesis adopts semiotics, effectively shifting …
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The Private Language Problem
… charges of objectionable conventionalism (or nominalism).
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On the classification of business strategy
… similarities. It steers between essentialism and nominalism, in ’accommodationist’ mode. The framework recognises that some such schemes are more ’successful’ than others and attributes this to a number of their ontic and epistemic features in the three detailed case studies. The use (and abuse) …
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Is Ancient Eudaimonism a Defensible Normative Ethical Position?
… counter-argument from Jean Hampton to Hobbesian nominalism as being inherently irrational will then be examined. Julia Annas’ remarks on these two issues will be examined at the end of each section. According to the third objection raised by Scotus and Christine Swanton, eudaimonism is …
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An analysis of the church planting strategies and methods of the Ghana Baptist Convention and Mission from 1960-2000
… GEC 1993 Survey and touches on such issues as nominalism the 14000 unevangelized villages and towns and also the 3.2 million unevangelized northern people and other aliens in southern Ghana. Chapter 2 describes Ghana. The chapter describes the geography of Ghana and covers the history, culture, …
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Alexander Hegius (ca. 1433-98) : His life, Philosophy, and Pedagogy
… the Low Countries. The complex interplay of this nominalism with his emerging humanism had far-reaching effects on the curriculum and methods in Deventer and made St. Lebuins an outstanding center of the new Learning.</p>
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A hermeneutics of the ontology of time and technology
… disagreements about ‘realism’, ‘idealism’, or ‘nominalism’, for example, these disagreements are interpreted as having an unchanging understanding of ‘being’ in terms of ‘what-ness’ that unites them. Furthermore, this traditional understanding of ‘being’ as ‘what-ness’ is documented as having an …
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The Notion of the Machine Heart (ji xin 機心) in the Zhuangz i:the ethical relationship between technology and nature.
… that the Zhuangzi’s polemic against Confucian nominalism is connected to two important strands in the text. Firstly, it relates to the idea that the Heart needs to be stilled, to be starved of external stimuli that result in the constant verbal analysis of the world. Secondly, the Zhuangzi …
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The Trinitarian Doctrine of Grace in Martin Luther's The Bondage of the Will
… the soteriological views of Scholasticism and Nominalism. The present study culminates in a systematic presentation of the three dimensions of Luther’s Trinitarian doctrine of grace: First, contrition, conversion, and faith are effected by God’s Spirit, sola fide is a thoroughly Pneumatological …
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A Sceptical Aesthetics of Existence: The Case of Michel Foucault
A Sceptical Aesthetics of Existence: The Case of Michel Foucault Emmanouil Simos (Hughes Hall) Michel Foucault's genealogical investigations constitute a specific historical discourse that challenges the metaphysical hypostatisation of concepts and methodological approaches as unique devices for …