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| Nominalism: nominalism is the view that universals (for example, triangles, blackness) are merely artificial constructions from individual cases. The linguistic expressions are merely names for these constructs. See also universalism, conceptualism, general terms, categories, generalization, generality._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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John Bigelow on Nominalism - Dictionary of Arguments
I 97 Sets/BigelowVsNominalism/Bigelow/Pargetter: if he eliminated quantities, they would come in again through the rules of composition through the back door. >Sets, >Set theory, >Platonism. I 98 Example instead of refers to the set of rabbits he could say applies to all and only rabbits. "All and only"/Bigelow/Pargetter/(s): is a nominalistic avoidance of sets. BigelowVsNominalism: one could say that this is just an abbreviation for "the crowd of all and only rabbits". To apply/BigelowVsNominalism/Bigelow/Pargetter: "applies" needs to be discussed further before this paraphrase could prove anything ontologically. ((s) "applies to" = "true-of", >Satisfaction. ((s) BigelowVsQuine.) >Semantic ascent. Sets/Bigelow/Pargetter: whether you believe in them is one of those things. The semantics does not decide on this._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Big I J. Bigelow, R. Pargetter Science and Necessity Cambridge 1990 |
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