Word: nominalist
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...antireductionism and musings by some physicists on "the anthropic principle"--the idea that life and mind are somehow necessary to the universe. This sort of paradox leads Sheldrake to the radical position that changeless laws do not exist, and he has no use for what he disparagingly calls the "nominalist-materialist school,"--in other words, modern science...
Prime Vintage. A late-blooming novelist whose thoughts invariably run deeper than his plots, Burgess, 49, seems to be rekindling the nominalist argument that ignited scholars in the Middle Ages: Does a thing achieve reality only after it has a name...
...Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism, and Southern's Making of the Middle Ages, Bourne finds that the first two historians tend to invoke a time-spirit to explain the relations between different aspects of medieval culture. The positing of a time-spirit raises questions akin to those of the nominalist-realist controversy which occupied the minds of the medieval man that these historians write about: does the Zeitgeist have any universal validity or is it merely a magic name for uniting different manifestations of a culture? Bourne does an astute job of showing how the historians arrive at a causal Zeitgeist...
Plato believed in one immutable being and self-existant ideas. His position is one of complete and extreme realism, wherein he differs from Socrates, whose standpoint was that of a nominalist, and from Aristotle who held views midway between realism and nominalism...
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