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Thursday, September 05, 2013
The Short Course on Nominalism
The guy manages to put it into a very short essay and along the way supports the "Shakespeare Was Catholic" gang.
There was a pretty serious philosophical problem driving nominalism, which isn't easy to dismiss. I wrote a bit about it here.
It's a difficult question. I think I believe that the nominalists are right, but only about certain kinds of individuals -- that 'individuality is an emergent property,' to say it in the technical terms. We see it begin to emerge at certain levels of organization.
There was a pretty serious philosophical problem driving nominalism, which isn't easy to dismiss. I wrote a bit about it here.
ReplyDeleteIt's a difficult question. I think I believe that the nominalists are right, but only about certain kinds of individuals -- that 'individuality is an emergent property,' to say it in the technical terms. We see it begin to emerge at certain levels of organization.