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John Buridan (Great Medieval Thinkers) by Gyula Klima is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.
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John Buridan (ca. 1300-1362) has worked out perhaps the most comprehensive account of nominalism in the history of Western thought, the philosophical doctrine according to which the only universals in reality are "names": the common terms of our language and the common concepts of our minds. But these items are universal only in their signification; they are singular entities like any other in reality. This book examines what is most intriguing to contemporary readers in Buridan's medieval philo
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- Author
- Gyula Klima
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780199721078
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- History, Philosophy, Religion
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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