ENG100H1 Lecture Notes - Scientism, Nominalism
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He is one of the founders for intellectual conservatism. Published a book in the fifties called ideas have consequences . What went wrong in the 14th century was nominalism: pioneered by. It says the categories we come up with to make up the world are just made up or generalizations and they do not correlate with anything in the real world. Weaver gives us the idea in his essay that this used be a great field but theres a problem with scientism. Humans are not capable of being disinterested and neither should we be argures. Weaver really thought ideas have consequences and that the way you think and describe the world and artfully speak it really mattered. The short answer will not have a list of terms. Instead, it will have a list of texts and give the takeaway of texts.
