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1909 Nov 4
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Significs & LOGIC
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endure. The philosophers who followed them really
never went into the question; but one and all have
ever since been bred in Nominalism, and never
seriously questioned it; and only disputed between a more and a less extreme form of the doctrine. Thus, the whole modern
world has remained Nominalistic, in spite of the fact that
Nominalism is flatly opposed to some most of the best founded results
of modern science; and it is a curious instance of the force
of tradition, that when a man discovers this, he will usually
give up abandon, not the Nominalism, for which he can
give no evidence whatsoever, but will try to modify
his scientific belief so as to fancy he has made room for Nominalism.
What is Nominalism? Is is the doctrine that nothing real is general usually stated in the form,,
'Nothing "General" is Real'. But what do these two words mean? The words