Nominalismvrealism

//**Nominalism**//

Focus: -"universals" don't exist without our perception of them -they are just names for a particular objects, and don't exist outside our minds

Event Influences: -translation of the works of Plato -came as mainly a rebuttal to the Realism movement

Previous Movement Influences: -realism (it is most compared to the Realism movement)

Philosophers: -John Bourdin -Albert of Saxony -Marsilius of Inghen -Roscelin -**William of Ockham**

//**Realism**//

Focus: -"universals" exist independently of both the human mind and "particular things" -moderate realism held that "universals" exist only in the mind of God, as patterns by which he creates particular things (moderate realism was more popular in the time period) -theory that particular things exist independently of our perception

Event Influences: -translation of works of Plato -proliferation of Christianity and religion

Previous Movement Influences: -scholasticism (scholastic philosophers often were a part of the realism movement)

Philosophers: -William of Champeaux (extreme) -St. Thomas Aquinas (moderate) -John of Salisbury (moderate)

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