RE: Interesting statistics about academic philosophy
September 13, 2015 at 5:49 am
(This post was last modified: September 13, 2015 at 5:52 am by Mudhammam.)
(September 12, 2015 at 12:58 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: What's with all the atheits' hand-wringing? If you follow reason then nominalism (and by extension conceptualism) is demonstrably false. It does not matter whether this opens the door to theism or not. That would be an appeal to consequences.I'm not that well versed in the technicalities, but why could one not hold to conceptualism while rejecting nominalism? Couldn't one say that certain abstract objects may exist in some fashion and simultaneously believe that universals represent nothing more than terms that the mind applies to similar apprehensions in the way Alex described?
Personally, I find the prominence of non-skeptical and moral realism encouraging.
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza
