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5 - The Trouble with Ockham

Nominalism

from Part II - Medieval Protestants

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 September 2022

Christopher Ocker
Affiliation:
Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley
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This chapter offers a brief survey of general and narrow senses of “nominalism” in historical writing. It argues that nominalism should be strictly understood as a subcategory within the larger context of a style of argument best characterized as “terminism,” an approach that dominated the Liberal Arts in late medieval schools. It explains why terminism was more inclusive of a variety of doctrines than nominalism in its proper sense. It concludes by considering early reactions to Ockham.

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The Hybrid Reformation
A Social, Cultural, and Intellectual History of Contending Forces
, pp. 100 - 125
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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