Nestor, while I tentatively hold to moderate realism; however, I do think the term 'existence' is itself problematic. I find it to 'be' an almost inescapable term of art that molds itself to accommodate a variety of ideas. Or maybe an existential condition of life.
I do believe that the Schoolmen made important and subtle distinctions between ideas, forms, concepts and abstractions that get glossed over in Philosophy 101. The professors tend to jump from Aristotle to Descartes as if nothing happened in between ancient and modern traditions.
My personal synthesis as a layman starts with the distinction between the knowing subject and the object of knowledge...
Sorry more later...I'm posting from phone must go but do not want to lose what I've written so far.
I do believe that the Schoolmen made important and subtle distinctions between ideas, forms, concepts and abstractions that get glossed over in Philosophy 101. The professors tend to jump from Aristotle to Descartes as if nothing happened in between ancient and modern traditions.
My personal synthesis as a layman starts with the distinction between the knowing subject and the object of knowledge...
Sorry more later...I'm posting from phone must go but do not want to lose what I've written so far.
