Philosophy 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Nominalism
28 Dec 2017
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Jan 12 pertaining to names without having to go through them. Philosophy lecture #2: nominalism: we organized the world ourselves, this gets us the main idea: in some sense, universals exist in name only. There is whiteness in the world; plato says we couldn"t understand experiences. Nominalism: hume because his argument is parallel to plato"s: nominalism is as we saw last class, ambiguous. )ts linguistic root is (cid:498)normal(cid:499): world is made up of particulars (think of doctor that"s just a name(cid:524) (cid:498)there are no such things as homosexuals, only homosexual actions(cid:499) kind. Here"s hume: (cid:498)tis a principle generally received in philosophy that everything in nature is individual. (cid:499) as we saw with plato, (ume"s argument starts with (cid:498)perceptions(cid:499) epistemological considerations. Hume begins the treatise by drawing two divisions among what he calls our: 1. But you can reduce a white sphere: 2. Rules: what we know of the world comes by these mechanisms (cant get very far though tbh: 1.
