Is Hume a Nominalist
Of the English Empiricists, Hume Alone Is in Meinong’s Eyes Worthy of the Title “Nominalist” for Hume Alone Thinks of Nothing Other Than Words as Representing...
Of the English empiricists, Hume alone is in Meinong’s eyes worthy of the title “nominalist” for Hume alone thinks of nothing other than words as representing generalities.
What is wrong with nominalism?
Thus Nominalism, in both senses, is a kind of anti-realism. For one kind of Nominalism denies the existence, and therefore the reality, of universals and the other denies the existence, and therefore the reality, of abstract objects.
Is Berkeley a Nominalist?
On this interpretation, Berkeley does not take abstraction to be an important philosophical error in itself – after all, it is a form of nominalism – but one which leads some philosophers astray into the thickets of materialism.
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