Nominalism and semantics in Abelard and Ockham

DOI10.1007/S11787-015-0122-ZMaRDI QIDQ2354873zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Guy Hamelin, Danilo Luiz Silva Maia

Publication date 27 July 2015

Published in Logica Universalis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s11787-015-0122-z

zbMATH Keywords

Abelardmental languagemindOckhamsemanticssignification

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in Late Antiquity and medieval Europe (01A35) History of mathematical logic and foundations (03-03) Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05)

Review text

In the Middle Ages there were two champions of nominalism who rejected the real existence of the `universals': Peter Abelard (1079--1142) and William Ockham (1285?--1349), the former at the dawn of the medieval university, the latter, after two centuries, at the beginning of its setting. The paper compares their philosophies, pointing out the change of the focus from natural to mental language as the main difference between them.

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