Book contents
- The Hybrid Reformation
- The Hybrid Reformation
- Copyright page
- Additional material
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Part I Indifference and Ambiguity
- Part II Medieval Protestants
- 4 A Reformation Stake in Medieval Thinking
- 5 The Trouble with Ockham
- 6 Wegestreit
- Part III Interpretation beyond Borders
- Bibliography
- Index
5 - The Trouble with Ockham
Nominalism
from Part II - Medieval Protestants
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 September 2022
- The Hybrid Reformation
- The Hybrid Reformation
- Copyright page
- Additional material
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Part I Indifference and Ambiguity
- Part II Medieval Protestants
- 4 A Reformation Stake in Medieval Thinking
- 5 The Trouble with Ockham
- 6 Wegestreit
- Part III Interpretation beyond Borders
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
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 ReformationA Social, Cultural, and Intellectual History of Contending Forces, pp. 100 - 125Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022