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Dialectica, 2005 The aim of the present paper is twofold. One task is to argue that our use of the numerical vocabulary in theory and applications determines the reference of the numerical terms more precisely than up to isomorphism. In particular our use of the numerical vocabulary in modal and counterfactual contexts of application excludes contingent existents as ...
Uzquiano, G, Gabriel Uzquiano
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A Common Sense Defence of Ostrich Nominalism [PDF]
, 2021 When the meta-philosophies of Nominalism and Realism are compared, it is often said that Nominalism is motivated by a methodology of ontological economy, while Realism would be motivated by an appeal to Common Sense.
Guillon, J.B. (Jean-Baptiste)
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The Universal Nature of a Spinozistic Substance
Journal of Spinoza Studies, 2023 There is a longstanding alliance between rationalism and realism concerning universals. Spinoza does not disrupt that alliance. The nature of a Spinozistic substance, after all, is a universal. That is what I argue here.
Michael A. Istvan
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L’argomento dell’uno sui molti. Il dilemma dello struzzo
Rivista di Estetica, 2014 The purpose of this paper is to defend the so-called Ostrich Nominalism against the influential criticism that has been put forward by David M. Armstrong.
Francesco F. Calemi
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Theory of Computing Systems, 2013 The author develops an algebraic theory for languages of data words, i.e. words over an alphabet \(\Sigma\times \mathbb{D}\) where \(\Sigma\) is a finite set of labels and \(\mathbb{D}\) is an infinite set of data values. Some of the key notions of the paper are defined relative to a given data symmetry \((\mathbb{D},G)\) in which \(G\) is a subgroup ...
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Sellars's ontological nominalism [PDF]
, 2021 Wilfrid Sellars is widely known for two positions that he calls “nominalism.” On the one hand, there is his “psychological nominalism,” according to which any awareness one might have of abstract entities—be they properties, relations, or facts—is a ...
Simonelli, Ryan
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Theoretical Computer Science, 2003 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Christian Urban +2 more
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La doble vía del origen del nominalismo en la Edad Media desde la visión de José Luis Romero
Síntesis. Revista de Filosofía, 2023 The division of causes in Aquinas’ De principiis naturae 5 establishes how the four classical Aristotelian causes may be divided. The text presents several difficulties, the most important of which are the number of divisions and the not-necessary ...
Ceferino Muñoz Medina
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, 2019 ‘Nominalism’ refers to a family of views about what there is. The objects we are familiar with (e.g. hands, laptops, cookies, and trees) can be characterized as concrete and particular. Nominalists agree that there are such things.
Guigon, Ghislain
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