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2 unusual facts about Problem of universals


Problem of universals

The moral or political response is given by the conservative philosopher Richard M. Weaver in Ideas Have Consequences, where he describes how the acceptance of "the fateful doctrine of nominalism" was "the crucial event in the history of Western culture; from this flowed those acts which issue now in modern decadence".

Nino Cocchiarella (1975), professor emeritus of philosophy at Indiana University, has maintained that conceptual realism is the best response to certain logical paradoxes to which nominalism leads.


Cambridge Platonists

Universal, ideal forms (à la Plato) inform matter, and the physical senses are unreliable guides to their reality.


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