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Nominal abstraction

open access: yesInformation and Computation, 2011
Recursive relational specifications are commonly used to describe the computational structure of formal systems. Recent research in proof theory has identified two features that facilitate direct, logic-based reasoning about such descriptions: the interpretation of atomic judgments through recursive definitions and an encoding of binding constructs via
Andrew, Gacek   +2 more
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Tokens, Types, and Nominalism

open access: yesCrítica, 2018
En este trabajo se consideran diversos aspectos dell status ontológico de las palabras y de las oraciones, aspectos que ocasionan problemas a una posición nominalista, mas no a una conceptualists.
Ramon M. Lemos
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The Superiority of Universals over Theological Nominalism

open access: yes, 2020
The third alternative to universals discussed in this work is theological nominalism. This form of nominalism postulates concepts in the mind of God to replace universals.
José Tomás Alvarado   +1 more
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SHOTTENKIRK, Dena (2009). Nominalism and Its Aftermath : the Philosophy of Nelson Goodman

open access: yesEnrahonar: Quaderns de Filosofia, 2012
SHOTTENKIRK, Dena (2009). Nominalism and Its Aftermath : the Philosophy of Nelson Goodman  Dordrecht: Springer, IX, 170 p.
Samuel Elgin
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Bulgakov and Milbank: towards a critique of secular reason [PDF]

open access: yesВестник Свято-Филаретовского института
The article is dedicated to the comparative analysis of the phenomenon of secularism in the works of the Russian philosopher and theologian Fr. Sergius Bulgakov and the English theologian John Milbank.
Syundyukov Nikita K.
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Anti-nominalism reconsidered [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Many philosophers of mathematics are attracted by nominalism, the doctrine that there are no sets, numbers, functions or other mathematical objects. John Burgess and Gideon Rosen have put forward an intriguing argument against nominalism, based on the ...
Liggins, David
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Social Origins of Buddhist Nominalism? Non-articulation of the “Social Self” in Early Buddhism and Nāgārjuna [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
In the following, it will be argued that Nāgārjuna (ca. 150 CE) adopts a Buddhist nominalism that encompasses not only a position towards abstract entities, but resonates with a nominalist perspective on the “social reality” of persons.
Schlieter, Jens
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Od Bacona do Hume’a – istota i odcienie empiryzmu w nowożytnej Anglii

open access: yesFilozofia Publiczna i Edukacja Demokratyczna, 2012
The aim of the article is to give a brief overview of English empiricism, particularly in modern philosophy. The paper will firstly examine the pre-enlightenment thought of F. Bacon, upon which it will discuss the empiricism of J. Locke, G.
Bolesław Andrzejewski
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A Modest Proposal for Resolving the Apparently Never-Ending Evolution Debate: Reconsidering the Question

open access: yesStudia Gilsoniana, 2019
The author makes an attempt to show why (1) Darwin’s teaching in The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection and The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex cannot be “scientific” in a modern, classical, or any, sense and that ...
Peter A. Redpath
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Grounding Nominalism

open access: yes, 2019
Schulte P. Grounding Nominalism. PACIFIC PHILOSOPHICAL QUARTERLY. 2019;100(2):482-505.The notion of grounding has gained increasing acceptance among metaphysicians in recent years.
Schulte, Peter   +2 more
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