Posted on 05/23/2009 10:07:05 AM PDT by Salvation
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A theory that universal ideas, like truth, goodness, and humanity, are only names. It denies that universals are true concepts, present in the mind, that correspond to and are founded on objective reality. All abstract ideas, according to the nominalists, are only useful labels. (Etym. Latin nominalis, belonging to a name.)
Are these words are just words to them? And not beliefs, virtues or gifts of the Holy Spirit?
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Short answer. Yes.
The opposite is realism: the understanding that realities stand behind abstract terms even though they do not exist in space and time.
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